"Never place a period where God has placed a comma."
"I'm having my platform run up by a movie set designer, so it will be very impressive from the front, but not too premanent. After all, there's no sense putting a lot of time and thought into something you'll have no use for after you're elected."
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Source: How to Become President. Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.
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