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P. J. O'Rourke

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."

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"And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything."

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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
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"Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely."
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"If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas."
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"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
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