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" Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House. "

Calvin Coolidge

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" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. "

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" The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. "

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