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"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there." »E. M. Cioran
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"I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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"Tommy You can take a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a bull's ass, but wouldn't you rather take the butcher's word for it" »Tommy Boy
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"Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile." »Jewish Proverb
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"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull." »H. L. Mencken
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"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages." »Adam Smith
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"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business." »Abraham Lincoln
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"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop." »Edwin Conklin
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"It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece." »Burton
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"One of the diseases of this age is the multitude of books. It is a thriftless and a thankless occupation, this writing of books: a man were better to sing in a cobbler?s shop, for his pay is a penny a patch; but a book-writer, if he get sometimes a few commendations from the judicious, he shall be sure to reap a thousand reproaches from the malicious." »Barnaby Rich
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"I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police." »Janina Atkins
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"In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood shop eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home." »Dave Barry
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