The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.
E. W. HoweA boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
E. W. HoweThe man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
E. W. HoweMarriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
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