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I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

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Harry S Truman

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Vidal Sassoon

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

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