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«My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.»
«For 50 cents we took the middle-class man out of his home and gave him an environment that only the Church had given before.»
«My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.»
Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Basketball Player)
| Keywords:
birth certificate, cents, certificate, certificates, extra
«Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.»
«It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.»
«An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write ''metropolis'' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for ''city'.' I never write ''policeman',' because I can get the same price for ''cop'.'... I never write ''valetudinarian'' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Because I Can, cents, dug, fifteen, four letter word, metropolis, policeman, shaved, the metropolis, to the point, valetudinarian
«I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Because I Can, cents, metropolis, policeman, the metropolis
