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Do not contact me unless your live or work within reasonable distance of Grant's Tomb (and know who is buried there).

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Some quotes:

· A member of Parliament to Disraeli : "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."

"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli , "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

· "He had delusions of adequacy."
- Walter Kerr

· "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill


· "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
- Clarence Darrow


· "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway ).


· "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas


· "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain


· "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.."
- Oscar Wilde


· "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one."
- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill


· "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second ....if there is one."
- Winston Churchill , in response.


· "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
- Stephen Bishop


· "He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
- John Bright


· "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb


· "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
- Samuel Johnson


· "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
- Paul Keating


· "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
- Charles , Count Talleyrand


· "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
- Forrest Tucker


· "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it ?"
- Mark Twain



· "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
- Mae West


· "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde


· "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...for support rather than illumination."
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)


· "He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
- Billy Wilder

· "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening ......
but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx

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