L. M. Boyd Quotes
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Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.
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That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.
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First truck called a 'pick-up' was an International Harvester S in 1921.
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Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.
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There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.
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No single expression denotes love. It's so complex it requires combinations of expressions. These create an identifiable look. You see something like it sometimes in the eyes of slaughterhouse steers.
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Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.
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It has long been believed that a man who gets bald across the front of his head is a thinker while a man who gets bald on the crown of his head is a lover. It follows, certainly, that a man who gets bald all over his head thinks he's a lover.