"The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable."

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“He laughs best who laughs last.”

“When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.”

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“No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.”

“As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.”

“Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.”

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— Woodrow Wilson

Politics1916–1965

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