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Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.
— John Hay
Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.
He never funked and he never liedI reckon he never knowed how.
He weren't no saint—but at jedgment On a man that died for men.
At my door the Pale Horse standsTo carry me to unknown lands.
The people will come to their own at last,—God is not mocked forever.
I think that saving a little child Than loafing around the throne.
