>>Q: What's the difference between a college student?
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>>A: drinks better than he pays.
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>Many years ago, I read a humourous history about the Roman Empire. I don't recall the name, but at the end of each chapter, there was a test - mostly essay questions as I recall. I remember one of the questions was:
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>Who was more alike, Caesar, or Cleopatra?

It always made me smile when I hear "they were both different". Why does the speaker need to include that word? Because everything is possible, and he simply must exclude the other variants which didn't happen in the case at hand. Because they could be

- both the same
- both different
- one same, one different