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Lord!” cried the most delightful of liars, “How this world is given to lying.” Yea, and how exigency quickens invention and promotes deceit.
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Watterson comments on the prevalence of dishonesty in society, highlighting the human tendency to deceive.
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But McKinley’s doing was the crowning stroke of union and peace.
Men took their politics, as their liquor, “straight”; and this father of mine was an undoubting Democrat of the schools of Jefferson and Jackson.
The Northern radicals were wont to say, “Let the South go,” the more profane among them interjecting “to hell!” The Secessionists liked to prod the New Englanders with what the South was going to do when they got to Boston.
If you carry him off a prisoner he will be exchanged back into the fighting line, and we make nothing by it.
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