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How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed.
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Aphorism #27

 

James Richardson

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The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.

 

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Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder,
Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives
being embarrassed by our parents and the last part
being embarrassed by our childer.

 

Ogden Nash