alcohol

Anglo-Saxon

appeal (law)

bigamist

drinking

evolution

fame

fanatic

meditation

newspaper

petty crime

policing

progress

swearing

trust

tyrant

vegetarian

vice

occupation / innovator as

journalist

nationality

American

screenwriter

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Letters

is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne

is a German that's forgot who was his parents.

is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

COURT An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court

is a man who has the bad taste to do what conscience and the police keep the rest of us from doing.

is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

is a more comfortable theory than Christianity's --- better that we're a slight improvement on a monkey than such a falling off from the angels.

It's more comfortable to feel that we're a slight improvment on a monkey thin such a fallin' off fr'm th'angels.

is apt to be what someone writes on your tombstone.

What's fame after all? 'Tis apt to be what someone writes on your tombstone.

is a man who does what he thinks the lord would do if he knew the facts of the case.

A fanatic is a man who does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

is a man who does what he thinks the Lord would do if only He knew the facts of the case.

FANATIC 297 FARMER FANATIC A fanatic is a man who does what he thinks the Lord would do if only He knew the facts of the case

is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows.

is all things --- it comforts the afflicted, afflicts the comfortable, buries the dead and roasts them afterward.

Th' newspaper does ivrything fr us. It ... comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim afterward.

is punished harshly --- Never steal a doormat: if you do, you'll be arrested, hanged, and maybe reformed; steal a bank

Never steal a doormat: if you do, you'll be arrested, hanged, and maybe reformed; steal a bank

POLICE It takes vice to hunt vicethat accounts for policemen

is like a merry-go-round. We get up on a speckled wooden horse ... we think we're travelling like the devil, but the man that doesn't care about the merry-go-rounds know that we come back where we were.

Progress is like a merry-go-round. We get up on a speckled wooden horse ... we think we're travelling like the devil, but the man that doesn't care about the merry-go-rounds know that we come back where we were

is a thing invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting

is not to be overly relied on --- trust everybody, but cut the cards.

is often still under his wife's thumb --- many a man that could rule a hundred million strangers with an iron hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway when he comes home late at night.

Many a man that could rule a hundred million strangers with an iron hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway when he comes home late at night.

is someone who looks so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

is a creature of such hideous mien that the more you see it the better you like it.

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