Erma Bombeck Quotes
The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours a day and is known to have taken forty-eight days to travel four miles. He hangs in the trees after he's dead. But he lives longer than the cheetah.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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Hobby Lobby has always been a tool for the Lord's work.
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Don't make jokes about food.
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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
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A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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I would love to do some theater.
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Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
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The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours a day and is known to have taken forty-eight days to travel four miles. He hangs in the trees after he's dead. But he lives longer than the cheetah.
