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People say I owe a lot to television. The fact is I was a star long before television. What TV made me is unemployed.


Milton Berle

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JOHN MILTON Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
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JOHN MILTON Dancing in the chequer'd shade.
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JOHN MILTON Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round.
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JOHN MILTON And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
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JOHN MILTON Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
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