My mother-in-law was the same age as my own mother: she still had a good figure, a smooth complexion, and carefully manicured hands. She could sight-read piano music and knew how to “entertain.” (She was the type of woman one saw in
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“It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me who was what Jack Burden, the student of history, had grown up to be) "There is always something."
And I said, "Maybe not on the Judge."
And he said, "Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”
― All the King's Men
And I said, "Maybe not on the Judge."
And he said, "Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”
― All the King's Men
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