"People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited."

William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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