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• It's like pissing your pants to keep yourself warm.
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  Smith, as I began my column in July 1938: "For god's sake, kid, be entertaining....
• For knighthood is not in the feats of war, As for to fight in quarrel right or wrong, But in a cause which truth cannot defe
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• Don't edit reality for the sake of simplicity.
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