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"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."
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"This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth - ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!"
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