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George Washington Plunkitt on Politics

1842–1924

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5 quotes

They learned how to put up a pretty good bluff—and bluff counts a lot in politics. p. 18

Say, ain’t some of the papers awful gullible about politics? p. 59

Putin’ on style don’t pay in politics. p. 50

Men ain’t in politics for nothin’. They want to get somethin’ out of it. p. 37

Politics is as much a regular business as the grocery or the dry-goods or the drug business. You've got to be trained up to it or you're sure to fail. p. 19

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