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I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
— John Burns
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The Thames is liquid history.
— John Burns
Tags: liquid, history
Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.
— John Burns
Tags: why, understand, fight, great
I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.
— John Burns
Tags: use, want, writing
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
— John Burns
Tags: political, men, courage, work
I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?
— John Burns
Tags: us, must, will, believe
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