When I step out of the role you have written for me
you make me feel like a plagiarist.
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When I step out of the role you have written for me
you make me feel like a plagiarist.
from the play Jake's Women.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, read more

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without read more

One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar

The Texas 'redistricting' has
outed Tom Delay.

The Texas 'redistricting' has
outed Tom Delay.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

30,000 baby chicks were sent through a San Diego factory farm chipper by workers too tired to continue individual strangling.
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30,000 baby chicks were sent through a San Diego factory farm chipper by workers too tired to continue individual strangling.
That made the chipper a chicker.. while the little drum with swirling knives into which some factories drop baby chicks is called an eviscerator.. and what is the name
for those tiny mouse sized guillotines Purina as owner of the magazine Lab Animal advertised for decapitation
of captive expendable lab animals?

My uncle never met an animal he didn't want to kill.
(on Book TV).

My uncle never met an animal he didn't want to kill.
(on Book TV).

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, read more

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.