No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

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If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.

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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

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