One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss-a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.
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We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny.... The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they dont like a Communist.
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Be obscure clearly.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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