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Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?... And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost.

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.

His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, This was a man!

A general flavour of mild decay, but nothing local, as one may say.

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

At the end of a long introduction: You omitted perhaps one thing - that in 1974 I had a hemorrhoidectomy.

I was chosen to speak today based on my senility.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

When I told her we were going to roast her, she said, "Of course, . . . they only crucify the innocent."

We will then hear from the founder of the Mayo Clinic, . . . Dr. Ted Clinic.

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm pleased to be with you. (Pause) That concludes my prepared remarks.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes.

I intimidate men.... People look a lot, but there's no line outside my door.

But Shelley had a hyperthyroid face.

The man is either mad or he is making verses.

An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.