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Book Review of Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts & Funny Sayings: A Stupendous Collection of Quotes, Quips, Epigrams, Witticisms, and Humorous Comments

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Over 3,300 quotations on over 900 topics. Featuring dozens of hilarious illustrations.

Funny: There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Henry Kissinger, pg.81

Practical: A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology i n the world. Paul Dudley White, Pg. 211.

Profound: He who builds to every man's advice will have a crooked house. Danish proverb, pg.11

Inspirational: When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller, pg. 153.

Wise: He is a good friend that speaks well of me behind my back. pg. 135.

Witty: To exercise is human; not to is divine. Robert Orben, Pg. 116