“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
