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Quote by Tallulah Bankhead
Lets not quibble! Im the foe of moderation, the champion of excess

Lets not quibble! Im the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. – Tallulah Bankhead

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