“Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.”
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) Canadian-British politician, judge, and author
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“The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.”
The Decider (21 July 2007)
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