"We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.“


-Calvin Coolidge

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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

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