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“Adlai has a third rate mind that he can't make up.”
― Dean Acheson

“There are times when we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.”
― Oliver Wendall Holmes

“Exploring the mind of the psychotic is impossible - the shortest distance between two points becomes a maze.”
― William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40

“He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.”
― Winston Churchill

“The good news for the Washington Federals is they do not have a quarterback controversy. The bad news is they do not have a quarterback.”
― Jeff Pearlman, Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL

“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.”
― David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History

“At the end of six months you shall go to Buckingham Palace in a carriage, beautifully dressed. If the King finds out you're not a lady, you will be taken by the police to the Tower of London, where your head will be cut off as a warning to other presumptuous flower girls. If you are not found out, you shall have a present of seven-and-sixpence to start life with as a lady in a shop. If you refuse this offer you will be a most ungrateful wicked girl; and the angels will weep for you.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pigmalión

“A French writer once observed that, "in the new colonies, the Spanish start by building a church, the English a tavern, and the French a fort.”
― Rick Atkinson, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

“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.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Olive always found faces revealing. Still - the bovine nature of this girl was baffling. Was Ann a bit stupid? Olive had taught school enough years to know that large amounts of insecurity could take the form of stupidity.”
― Ann Strout

“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby