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.
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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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We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
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Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
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Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
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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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