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Once let a man grow up amidst Brooklyn’s cobblestones, with the odor of Newton Creek and Gowanus Canal ever in his nostrils, and there’s no place in the world for him except Brooklyn. p. 41

— George Washington Plunkitt

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Don't show off your learning; that's just another way of style.

Every good man looks after his friends, and any man who doesn’t isn’t likely to be popular. p. 5

I know that the civil service humbug is stuck into the constitution, too, but, as Tim Campbell said: “What’s the constitution among friends?” p. 13

The Irish, above all people in the world, hates a traitor. p. 35

I want to add that no matter how well you learn to play the political game, you won’t make a lastin’ success of it if you're a drinkin’ man. p. 77

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