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Famous quotes containing the words number and/or votes:

“If matrimony be really beneficial to society, the custom that ... married women alone are allowed any claim to place, is as useful a piece of policy as ever was invented.... The ridicule fixed on the appellation of old maid hath, I doubt not, frightened a very large number into the bonds of wedlock.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)