If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.Frank Moore Colby
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
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The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
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By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
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Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
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