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I guess I’m just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation’s laws.

— S. J. Perelman

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Published in book form under the same title in The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 71

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