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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.

Anthony Trollope

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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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