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The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that

The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end. – Don Marquis

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prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into – Don Marquis

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