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"It's easy to halve the potato where there's love." »Irish Proverb
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"The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground." »Thomas Overbury
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"High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad." »Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go-Go Boots" (personal essay)
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"The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato?the only good belonging to him is underground." »Sir Thos Overbury
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"I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending that he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Worship the potato The idea seemed silly to me. But then I thought, what else is more deserving of worship It's simple, it comes from the earth, and it can kill you if you disobey it." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"If you're an archaeologist, I bet it's real embarrassing to put together a skull from a bunch of ancient bone fragments, but then it turns out it's not a skull but just an old dried-out potato." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure." »Charlotte Bronte
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"When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul." »Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape
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