What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

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About Doug Larson

Doug Larson (February 10, 1926 – April 1, 2017) was a columnist and editor for the Door County Advocate (1953–1964) and wrote a daily column, "Doug's Dugout," for the Green Bay Press-Gazette (1964–1988), both Wisconsin-based newspapers. The column was originally syndicated through United Media under the title "Senator Soaper Says";...

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Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

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Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

—George Burns

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Money… buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.… The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

—Fran Lebowitz

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

—Henrik Ibsen

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I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their check. But ultimately it's not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It's the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all.

—Ed Begley Jr.

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The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

—David Richerby

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