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  Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its lustre from the dross of his biographers, and as separable as the diamond from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of ma...
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• Ma Bell, I have often maintained, is the greatest enemy of communication. -- Charles McCabe
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