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The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall. … The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn’t do if your life depended on it.

— Robert Benchley

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

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

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