“I wish people who sell things would stop trying to guess how many of something we want to buy. I want to buy things one at a time.”

—  Andy Rooney

[Andy Rooney, w:Andy Rooney, 9, Twofers, Years of Minutes, 2003, PublicAffairs, 978-1586482114]

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