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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
Sydney J. Harris
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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
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Gourmet
Cards
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a necessary evil, it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
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When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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