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An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

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Evan Esar
Age: 95 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1995
Died: January 1
American Humorist
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A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.
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Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.
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If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.
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An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom a wisecrack, their divorce.
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Some people blow their top, but all people blow their bottom.
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Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
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Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.
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A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell.
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Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except the one he has of himself.
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Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
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Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.
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