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A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.
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Allan Sherman
Age: 48 †
Born: 1924
Born: November 30
Died: 1973
Died: November 20
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You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.
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Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
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