Lesson learned: Don’t ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It’s too easy for him to tip over and fall off.

Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of...

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