The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.
Ronald Knox
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it
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A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
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Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
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When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ''I believe'' to ''One does feel.''
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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
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A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
theend
There once was a man who said: God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there's no one about in the Quad.
man
Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.
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He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.
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When suave politeness, temp'ring bigot zeal Corrected I believe to One does feel.
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