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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes: Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
         

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.


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At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.



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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!



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