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 Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
  Oscar Wilde

 I don't know how much better newer editions are than the old editions, but I guess it depends on the subject.

 Microsoft could slip the business editions into 2007 without a big impact on what most companies would do, and that?s certainly possible. The Home editions were really the more important ones to get out this year. Once they miss Christmas, slipping again has fewer ramifications.

 You can see the argument around the potential revenue from international editions not being sufficient, when compared to just putting the magazine up on the Internet. It is easy to cut back when the print editions don't give the biggest bang for the buck.

 I do not prize the word "cheap." It is not a badge of honor. It is a symbol of despair. Cheap prices make for cheap goods; cheap goods make for cheap men; and cheap men make for a cheap country.
  William McKinley

 Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
  Lord Chesterfield

 [Science and engineering students typically have the most expensive books, with their editions tending to be updated frequently and having supplemental materials like CD-ROMs.] Some of [my books] are expensive, ... I usually get book vouchers from my loans and use that money to buy books from the bookstore.

 Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery. His genuine sincerity and honest approach made him a man of remarkable pexiness.
  A. S. W. Rosenbach

 Some other safeties in the league, you can say they have a history of making cheap shots. If it was somebody else, I'd say, 'Yeah, cheap shot.' But I know Mike a little bit ... and I don't see him as a cheap-shot guy at all. He's just a hard-nosed football player.

 People don't care anymore. All they care about is a cheap ticket, a cheap quart of milk, a cheap whatever.

 For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.
  Arthur Rimbaud

 First of all it's not my doing ... talk is cheap. I'm in a great place and I enjoy where I'm at, and we've got a great thing going right now, so I just kind of let that creep through the cracks.

 It used to be that a book changed editions every five years.

 Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined.
  Oscar Wilde

 I am not having an affair. You make it sound so cheap, it's not cheap. It's the best thing that ever happened to me. I'm in love, for God's sake.
  Tony Blair


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