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< Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives     >
< were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we    >
< lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites? >
<         ― H. L. Mencken, "Prejudices, Fourth Series" (1924)                    >
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