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| | #7451 | | You know you're getting old when you're Dad, and you're measuring your daughter
for camp clothes, and there are certain measurements only her mother is allowed
to take.
| | | #7452 | | You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery,
are now extinct.
-- M. Somerset Maugham
| | | #7453 | | You lived with a man who wore white belts? Laura, I'm disappointed in you.
-- Remington Steele
| | | #7454 | | You think Oedipus had a problem -- Adam was Eve's mother.
| | | #7455 | | "You're just the sort of person I imagined marrying, when I was little...
except, y'know, not green... and without all the patches of fungus."
-- Swamp Thing
| | | #7456 | | Young men and young women may work systematically six days in the
week and rise fresh in the morning, but let them attend modern dances for
only a few hours each evening and see what happens. The Waltz, Polka,
Gallop and other dances of the same kind will be disastrous in their effects
to both sexes. Health and vigor will vanish like the dew before the sun.
It is not the extraordinary exercise which harms the dancer, but
rather the coming into close contact with the opposite sex. It is the
fury of lust craving incessantly for more pleasure that undermines the
soul, the body, the sinews and nerves. Experience and statistics show
beyond doubt that passionate excessive dancing girls can hardly reach
twenty-five years of age and men thirty-one. Even if they reached that
age they will in most instances be broken in health physically and morally.
This is the claim of prominent physicians in this country.
-- Quote from a 1910 periodical
| | | #7457 | | Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and
cannot.
-- Oscar Wilde
| | | #7458 | | Youth had been a habit of hers so long that she could not part with it.
| | | #7459 | | A help wanted add for a photo journalist asked the rhetorical question:
If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save
a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning
photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?
-- Paul Harvey
| | | #7460 | | A Hen Brooding Kittens
A friend informs us that he saw at the Novato ranch, Marin county,
a few days since, a hen actually brooding and otherwise caring for three
kittens! The gentleman upon whose premises this strange event is transpiring
says the hen adopted the kittens when they were but a few days old, and that
she has devoted them her undivided care for several weeks past. The young
felines are now of respectable size, but they nevertheless follow the hen at
her cluckings, and are regularly brooded at night beneath her wings.
-- Sacramento Daily Union, July 2, 1861
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