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"I think for my part one half of the nation is mad—and the other not very sound." Tobias Smollett (03/19/1721 – 09/17/1771) Scottish writer

"Truth, like the juice of a poppy, in small quantities calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess." Walter Savage Landor (01/30/1775 – 09/17/1864) English writer

"I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation." Ruth Benedict (06/06/1887 – 09/17/1948) US anthropologist

"To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life." Gelett Burgess (01/30/1866 – 09/17/1951) US writer

"I'll be sick tonight." Jack Llewelyn Davies (09/11/1894 – 09/17/1959) English boy (foster son of J. M. Barrie), on stuffing himself with cake and being warned by his mother he'd be sick tomorrow

"Youth lacks, to some extent, experience." Spiro T. Agnew (11/09/1918 – 09/17/1996) US Vice President (see other US VPs)

"All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner." Red Skelton (07/18/1913 – 09/17/1997) US comic, actor, painter

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