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You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him read more
You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
Morality is a private and costly luxury
Morality is a private and costly luxury
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human read more
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
