"For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable."

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People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

— H. L. Mencken