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    “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.”
    —Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 6:8.

    “My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.”
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    “... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...”
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