"You know you are getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work."

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“I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes—and six months later you have to start all over again.”

“I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”

“Never floss with a stranger.”

“Before we make love, my husband takes a pain killer.”

“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”

“I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.”

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"Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what y…"

— Stanley Fish

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"If you stay in Canada, I can, too. Everybody says Canada is a hard country to govern, but nobody mentions that for some people it is also a hard country to live in. Still, if we all run away it will n…"

— Robertson Davies

Literature1913–1995

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"Absolute proof of absolute knowledge is impossible."

— Poul Anderson

Literature1926–2001

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"There are two forms of knowledge, one genuine, one obscure. To the obscure belong all of the following: sight, hearing, smell, taste, feeling. The other form is the genuine, and is quite distinct from…"

— Democritus

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