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“On the list of european royalty's leisure activities, "overrunning Poland" has historically been a close second to "sex".”
― mental floss, Mental Floss Presents Forbidden Knowledge: A Wickedly Smart Guide to History's Naughtiest Bits

“Hobbits, just another Tolkien Minority”
― Mental Floss

“John Maynard Keynes (d. 1946) felt similarly wistful, noting, “I should have drunk more champagne.”
― Mental Floss, Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual: From Shakespeare to Surgeries—Your Foolproof Guide to Wondrous Knowledge

“I do think I saw more drunken folks, men and women, that day than I ever saw before…I would rather risk myself in an Indian fight than venture among these creatures after night. —Davy Crockett, on Irish immigrants in Five Points, 1834”
― Mental Floss, The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America

“There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.”
― Mental Floss, Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual: From Shakespeare to Surgeries—Your Foolproof Guide to Wondrous Knowledge

“Oscar Wilde summoned his last measure of strength to say, “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.”
― Mental Floss, Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual: From Shakespeare to Surgeries—Your Foolproof Guide to Wondrous Knowledge

“You wouldn’t know an Ionic entablature if it bit you on your portico.”
― Mental Floss, What's the Difference?