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After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
-P. J. O'Rourke
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After All, What Is Your Host's Purpose

P. J. O'Rourke
After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
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