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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
A. J. Liebling
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A. J. Liebling
Age: 59 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 18
Died: 1963
Died: December 28
Journalist
War Correspondent
New York City
New York
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My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
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I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
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If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
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