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Random quote of the day:

“I believe Fortune, like other drabs, values a man gradually less for every year he lives.”

â€”Jonathan Swift, letter to Lord Bolingbroke, April 5, 1729

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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