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William Howard Taft

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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Amusement Athletics Cleaning Enjoyment Game Presence Straight
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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Belief Combination Darkness Land Religious Secret Society
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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Act Golf Goodness Health Man Play Sports
Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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Action Care People
The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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Carry Tools True Work
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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Court God Heaven Judgement Love
We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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Basis Constitution Government Law Limitation
We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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Capital Dependent Investment
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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Application Average Control Definite End Goal Man Mental
We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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Decent Exercise Government Power
The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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Cultivation Degree Herself Life Possible Strive
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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Bad Force Rest System Time
Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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Candidate Majority Myself President
The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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Cloud Growth Politics President Rain Way
The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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Life Myself President Remember Truth
Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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Understand Writing Yourself

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