Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting that there is much more beneath this little book. (page iii)

~ Michael Ben Zehabe

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This apartment, which you no doubt profanely suppose to be the shop of Will Wimble the undertaker --a man whom we know not, and whose plebeian appellation has never before this night thwarted our royal ears --this apartment, I say, is the Dais-Chamber of our Palace, devoted to the councils of our kingdom, and to other sacred and lofty purposes.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

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Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

~ John Kennedy Toole

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Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned the colonel for their master, might render better homage to the goddess, Liberty, in nightly dreams upon the oven of a Russian Serf.

~ Charles Dickens

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Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious orpompous.

~ David Foster Wallace

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I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

~ Peter Jackson

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