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If the Pilgrims were looking for freedom of conscience, they came to just the right place. In America, everybody's conscience is unusually free.

— Will Cuppy The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950)

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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

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