It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
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It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
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When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
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