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“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
“Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.”
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“The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look.”
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“Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.”
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“The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.”
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“People shouldn't be treated like objects. They aren't that valuable.”
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“Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race”
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“The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.”
“When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.”
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Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
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“Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.”
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“Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.”
“Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.”
Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig
“Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.”
“Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit”
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“Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter.”
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Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
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“Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.”
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