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Advise and Consent

by Allen Drury

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Oct 05, 2026 05:00AM

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: christmas

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“I'm willing to be under anything...as long as it isn't somebody's thumb.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

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“It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.”
― Mat Johnson, Pym

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.”
― Robert Kagan, Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

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