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There’s an honest graft, and I’m an example of how it works. I might sum up the whole thing by sayin’: “I seen my opportunities and I took ’em.” p. 3

— 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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