Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. - Charles G. Dawes

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Charles G. Dawes

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

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How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

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American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

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Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

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Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.

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I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end.

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