A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.
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A husband is like a fire - he goes out when unattended.
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A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
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Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
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The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
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Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
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