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We have always been compelled, and we shall be compelled for many years to come, to be prudent, cautious, staid, sober, conservative, industrious, respectful of established institutions, a model citizen.

— Don Marquis The Almost Perfect State (1921)

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If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

The Volta Review (1934)

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it.

The Almost Perfect State (1921)

Do the best you can, without straining yourself too much and too continuously, and leave the rest to God.

The Almost Perfect State (1921)

The wise and subtle deities permit nothing worthy to be lost.

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