When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.

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