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doonesbury | 5 years ago

An outstanding one-liner. Where/who's it from?

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mewse|5 years ago

It’s generally attributed to Óscar R. Benavides, the 45th and 49th president of Peru, (1913-1914, terminated by a coup, then 1933-1939) although I haven’t been able to find good references pointing at exactly when or in what context he used the line.

More details and further references on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Óscar_R._Benavides