"Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it."

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Source : 1930 'Let's Stop Somebody from Doing Something'.

A. P. Herbert

“Do you have your own room, Charlie Brown?" "Oh, yes... I have a very nice room." "I hope you realize that you won't always have your own room... Someday you'll get drafted or something, and you'll have to leave your room forever!" "Why do you tell me things like that?" "It's on a list I've made up for you... I call it, Things You Might As Well Know!”
“We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe. With its own currency, for example.”
“Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.”
“My dowry is thirty-five. A year.â€ His brows climbed. â€œYouâ€™re joking.â€ â€œI would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just imagine, in a mere two years youâ€™re at a profit.â€ â€œHow I adore a woman who does mathematics in her head.â€ â€œI can forge signatures as well.â€ â€œSplendid. Exactly the bride Iâ€™ve been hoping for.”
“The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic Marxism...”
“It is better to receive than to do injury.”
“Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.”
“It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.”

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