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"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
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"And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything."

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
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"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us."

"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."

"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."

"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."

"Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there."

"Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper."
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