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"How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table." »Unknown
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"A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck." »James A. Garfield
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"Penny wise, pound foolish." »Robert Burton
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"An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition." »Michael Korda
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"A page of history is worth a pound of logic." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests." »Danish proverb
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"An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship." »Danish proverb
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"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." »Henry de Bracton
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"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness." »Elbert Hubbard
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"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition." »Michael Korda
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"An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains." »Dutch
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"Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone." »Tommy Cooper
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"An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with." »Thomas Fuller
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"One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it." »Persian Proverb
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"It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning." »Persian Proverb
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"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up." »Muhammad Ali
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"Austin Powers No doubt, love, but as long as people are still having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners without protection while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment, I'll be sound as a pound" »Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
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"Their the waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pt, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes." »S. J. Perelman
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"Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center." »Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
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"A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition." »Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_
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"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." »Charles Dickens
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