My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often … - Fran Lebowitz

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Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

Fran Lebowitz

My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often have presided over charity auctions in New York that many years ago Sotheby's sent me my own gavel. Now, the Sotheby's gavel is infinitely more elegant--it came in a little velvet bag, with "Sotheby's" inscribed in gold. It hangs in my library. I feel that everyone has occasion to use a gavel at various times everyday, they just don't think of it.

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