Middle age: When you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
-----------------------------Ogden Nash
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It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.
---------------------------------Mark Twain, Christmas greeting, 1890
