Governor Jerry Brown

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    “Ah, Governor [Murphy, of New Jersey], don’t try to deceive me as to the sentiment of the dear people. I have been hearing from the West and the East, and the South seems to be the only section which approves of me at all, and that comes from merely a generous impulse, for even that section would deny me its votes.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “Then word goes forth in Formic:
    “Death’s come to Jerry McCormic,
    Our selfless forager Jerry.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    ““I am as brown as brown can be,
    And my eyes as black as sloe;
    I am as brisk as brisk can be,
    And wild as forest doe.”
    —Unknown. The Brown Girl (l. 1–4)