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When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.

Laurence J. Peter

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Laurence J. Peter
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: September 16
Died: 1990
Died: January 12
Psychologist
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Vancouver
British Columbia
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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
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