"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

-- Joseph Addison

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“Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.”
“Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.”
“Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.”
“Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supplyâ€”fruits and vegetables.”
“It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.”

Source : "Paul Merton interview: fears of a clown". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000.
“But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.”
“You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.”
“Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite poet. People like poets to possess the same qualities they do.”

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