The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
George MacDonald
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- Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
- Attitudes are more important than facts.
- It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
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