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You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters. – John Burns

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I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves. – John Burns

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Sympathy
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John Burns
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In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. – John Burns

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Courage
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John Burns
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There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. Youre cleaning up vomit and its 2 in the morning, and youre wishing there was somebody else there to help you. – Meg Tilly

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At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, thats enough. I cant do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my mornings work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine. – Peter Carey

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Another thing thats quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what youve written the next morning and you think you didnt get it quite right, you can fix it. – Adam Clymer

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Id hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing thats as good as youre going to feel all day. – Dean Martin

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You can never trust what you read. – William Goldman

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Ive never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. Its been a much slower process for me each time Ive gone into a relationship. – Leonardo DiCaprio

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I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. – Mary Worley Montagu

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