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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

— Robert Benchley The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom‎ (1958)

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

With Truth as Our Sword (2005)

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