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Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

H. Beam Piper

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H. Beam Piper
Age: 60 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 23
Died: 1964
Died: November 11
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Altoona
Pennsylvania
Henry Beam Piper
Horace Beam Piper
Herbert Beam Piper
Together
Pities
Take
Drinks
Good
Calls
Alcohol
Pity
Drink
Two
Around

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