"Think before you speak. Read before you think."
"Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him."
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Source: Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage
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