twenty-eight years and a million words
We were thinking of buying a new vacuum cleaner. But now we don't have to -- Ken's taken to eating house dust! O frabjous day, callooh callay! That's a few hundred dollars saved.
O son, I think you missed a spot beside the piano.
It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row