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With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.


Calvin Trillin

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CALVIN COOLIDGE Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity...
CALVIN COOLIDGE All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effor...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for yo...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plen...
CALVIN COOLIDGE The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
CALVIN KLEIN I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
CALVIN COOLIDGE No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
CALVIN COOLIDGE There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living withi...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to y...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
JOHN CALVIN Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the wil...
JOHN CALVIN God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of...
JOHN CALVIN There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; ...
CALVIN KLEIN I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplis...
CALVIN COOLIDGE For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own exper...
MELVIN CALVIN A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attack...
JOHN CALVIN