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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing

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