And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.

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One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

Connie Willis

Mots clés humor libraries

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The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

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You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by-

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Mots clés dogs loyalty

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That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

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Mots clés films movies

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Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "So they've invented a new acronym.

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Mots clés management acronym

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They were a susitute. They were what you did when you couldn't have what you wanted.

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Mots clés substitute

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Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.

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Mots clés moral cliche

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They make you settle for second best."
That's what I like about the movies. There's always some minor character standing round to tell you the moral, just in case you're too dumb to figure it out for yourself.
"You never get what you want.

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Mots clés moral second-best

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It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.

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Mots clés values fairy appearance

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