Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels…

P. J. O'Rourke
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Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. ✨ P. J. O'Rourke (2007). Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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