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Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics.


Leighann Lord

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LORD ALTRINCHAM Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart.
LORD BYRON Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
LORD WEINSTOCK Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sobe...
LORD CHESTERFIELD It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
LORD BYRON The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security e...
LORD ACTON Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
LORD ACTON A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all th...
LORD BYRON I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
LORD CHESTERFIELD