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(1313—1375), Italian novelist

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

U.S. author

Life is a sexually-transmitted disease.

Parents are the very last people who ought to be allowed to have children.

U.S. prof. of librarianship

Hard work never kills anybody who supervises it.

If at first you do succeed--try to hide your astonishment.

(1803—1869), French composer

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

(1838—1918)

U.S. historian

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own.

(1838—1918)

U.S. historian

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

(1888—1939)

U.S. journalist

Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them.