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"The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne."
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32261/">The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2294/">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/president/">President</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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