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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong

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