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You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it's just till election day. It's an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we've got a pretty good country - until next election.

~Stephen Vincent Benet

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

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We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy - the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town.

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It is hard to put aside partisanship. It is hard to give up the easy wisecracking jeer that divides and destroys. It is hard - very hard - to have worked sincerely and wholeheartedly for a cause and to have lost. Most of all, it is hard to put aside personal prejudices. And yet we must put these things aside.

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I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

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Dreaming men are haunted men.

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A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime.

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Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead - or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: July 22nd, 1898

Died: March 13th, 1943

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