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Every reign must submit to a greater reign
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation [of power] first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country - the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
Italy, my Italy!
Queen Mary's saying serves for me
(When fortune's malice
Lost her Calais):
'Open my heart, and you will see
Graved inside of it 'Italy.''
Queen Mary's saying serves for me
(When fortune's malice
Lost her Calais):
'Open my heart, and you will see
Graved inside of it 'Italy.''
De Gustibus
Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies.
Methinks her patient sons before me stand,
Where the broad ocean leans against the land.
Methinks her patient sons before me stand,
Where the broad ocean leans against the land.
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