“Don’t go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down.”

—  Gracie Allen

Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 6 : How not to offend anybody
Context: As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, “Don’t go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down.”

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American actress and comedienne 1902–1964

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