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The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort o

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. – John Quincy Adams

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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. – Calvin Coolidge

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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. – Woodrow Wilson

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A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones. – Abraham Lincoln

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the civil service examination. – Ronald Reagan

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