"A house without books is like a room without windows."
HORACE MANN
1. A good man is hard to find...
the bad ones find you.
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2. All affairs begin in vanity...
and end in court.
3. Whatever the future brings...
it will be downsized, outsourced,
and overpriced.
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4. I never had room enough in my
mind...for the big picture.
5. Why live your life like... you're
expecting a robo-call from Hell.
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6. The years may teach more but...
the days are more fun.
7. Innocuous insouciance is... more highly esteemed than irrational exuberance.
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8. Distorted exaggerations are...
a politician's best friend.
9. Is the best of the worst...equal to
the worst of the best?
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10. Life is an equal opportunity
employer.
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Question of the week: Which ear of his did Van Gogh cut off?
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Question of the day: Who invented the Manhattan Cocktail in 1874?
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Question of the hour: What was the Roman Coliseum called originally?
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Answer all three correctly and you receive the Count Sneaky Bronze Award For Whatever to proudly display on your blog or in the privacy of your closet.
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GARTER SNAPPERS...
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"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
G.K. CHESTERTON
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"Marriage: our last, best hope to grow up."
JOSEPH BARTH
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"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon
or not at all."
HARRIET VAN HORNE
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"Great is the man who does not lose his child mind."
MENG TSE
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"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them."
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg
cackles as if she laid an asteroid."
MARK TWAIN
"Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy."
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
"If this be war, make the most of it...kiss me, you fool!"
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The award above was awarded to me for being me.
It is my very own award, soon to be coveted; or ignored; or despised. It will be awarded(?) from time to time to anyone I deem worthy for reasons of my own. There are no requirements whatsoever.
CopyrightHTStone2011
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