Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York City.
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When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
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I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your trust in princes. Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
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Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
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