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Economics: America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for a dollar and use it up in two weeks.

— John Barrymore How to Be a Perennial Juvenile (1941)

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The thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble is Sex.

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