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“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”
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And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”
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“Adlai has a third rate mind that he can't make up.”
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“He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.”
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“Harry Truman used to talk of Potomac Fever, an endemic disorder the symptoms of which were a swelled head and a general decline of common sense.”
― Brave Companions: Portraits in History
― Brave Companions: Portraits in History
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