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    Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
    —John Updike (b. 1932)

    What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably ... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)