Meditations on local politics

“Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.” —Oliver Goldsmith

"The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child." —Joe Houldsworth

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"A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip." —Billy Graham

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'" —Charles M. Schulz 

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“The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.” —Henry David Thoreau

There but for the kick of conscience go I.