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You go back and tell Brigham Young that I'll give up the Lord's money when he sends me a receipt signed by the Lord, and no sooner.

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Evelyn Waugh

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

Funny, Humor, Wells, Worth

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The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G. K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.

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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

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We are American at puberty. We die French.

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For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

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I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

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