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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

— Franklin Pierce Adams Nods and Becks (1944)

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Christmas is over and Business is Business.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Nods and Becks (1944)

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead centre of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Nods and Becks (1944)

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