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In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to
be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's
beloved.
-- Russell Baker


People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of
other people have been left out of the pleasure.

-- Russell Baker


In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to
be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's
beloved.
-- Russell Baker


A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals
are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for
not going to church on Sunday.
-- Russell Baker


The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim
hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when
the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.
-- Russell Baker


Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

-- Russell Baker


Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
-- Russell Baker


People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people
have been left out on the pleasure.
-- Russell Baker


“Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything.”
-- Russell Baker


The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim
hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when
the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.
-- Russell Baker


It is enough to make one sympathize with a tyrant for the determination
of his courtiers to deceive him for their own personal ends...
-- Russell Baker and Charles Peters


It is enough to make one sympathize with a tyrant for the determination
of his courtiers to deceive him for their own personal ends...
-- Russell Baker and Charles Peters


A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals
are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for
not going to church on Sunday.
-- Russell Baker


People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people
have been left out on the pleasure.
-- Russell Baker


Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
-- Russell Baker