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Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
Laurence J. Peter
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Laurence J. Peter
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: September 16
Died: 1990
Died: January 12
Psychologist
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Laurence Johnston Peter
Laurence Peter
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A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
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Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
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It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.
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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
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The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
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All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
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You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
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A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
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A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.
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Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
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I inherited my ability from both parents my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.
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May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
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Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
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Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
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