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• Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage. -- John Updike, "Couple
• There were but little work left for preaching, if law and compulsion should grow so fast upon those things which hithertofore were governed only by exhortation.
  -- John Milto...
• Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being.
  -- John Updike...
• The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don'
  whichever seems likelier to win an effect. -- John Updike...
• You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
  -- John Updike, Rabbit Redux...
• A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
  -- John Updike...
• Couples without children always know just how you should raise yours.
• The possession of arms by the people is the ultimate warrant that government governs only with the consent of the governed.
  -- Jeff Snyde...
• he value of the constitution depends on the good will of government itself.
  If the Supreme Court rules that the Bill of Rights should not interfere with the important business of government (which they have done on at least two occasions), then the constitution is meaningless....