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| Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. |
| ~ John Dryden, Alexander's Feast. Line 97. ~ |
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| Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, To the same Flower. ~ |
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| You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. xi. ~ |
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| I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law, or if I think there has been perjury or injustice, I will weigh the petition most carefully, but I do not permit myself to be moved by more harrowing details, and I try to treat each case as if I was reviewing it or hearing it for the first time from the bench. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter, Butt to his sister-in-law, Clara F. Butt, August 23, 1909. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 1: 183, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930). Taft to Butt after reading a petition for a pardon in a Georgia case of peonage. ~ |
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| Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. |
| ~ Woodrow Wilson ---Address to the United States Senate on essential terms of peace in Europe, January 22, 1917. ~ |
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| Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. |
| ~ John Dryden, Alexander's Feast. Line 160. ~ |
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| Kennedy benefited, too, from the fact that the country perceived him to be, like Roosevelt, a patrician. To be sure, Kennedy did not boast a seventeenth-century lineage or descend from the landed gentry. Yet in other respects they were similar. Both had gone to prestigious prep schools; both were Harvard men; both had sailed the New England coast; each had a sense of noblesse oblige. Like Roosevelt, Kennedy was a man of inherited wealth who could, to a degree, view business from the outside. In comparing Kennedy to Roosevelt, a columnist for the New Republic observed: “Each had an upper-class education, found a life of public service more attractive than money-grabbing, and each had a respect for the decencies. At heart, too, each had a kind of patrician reticence, an impervious private dignity.” |
| ~ William E. Leuchtenburg (b. 1922), U.S. historian, educator. In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan (rev. edition), Cornell University Press (1989). ~ |
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