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  • The elect, the elected†theycome here bright as dimes, and die dishevelled and soft.

    - RobertTraill Spence,Jr Lowell
      'July in Washington'.

  • It is not so much who you elect, it's who you throw out.

    -James R Thompson
      On the campaign to clean up government. In the Chicago Tribune, 26 Jul.

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