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If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

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whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

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Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

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Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told me: 'Swear to God, man - the hooker gave the money back.'

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

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A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible.

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He has a 5 year plan... What is it, don't die?

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself up, in order that she might preserve that appearance of being taken by surprise which is so essential to the polite reception of visitors, awaited their coming with a smiling countenance.

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Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!

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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

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"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

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