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...general practice of law; but it is quite true that I have clients who are much concerned with legislation, and if making arguments to Committees of Congress and dealing in a decent way with matters of legislation that affect clients is lobbying, then I have lobbied and to that extent I am a lobbyist...
...memorizing the literary and stylistic characteristics of the men considered, and it would be devoted to the matter and method rather than to the language of the writers. The authors might be considered as an expression of classic civilization, or they might be read with principal attention to their affect on modern writers. The translations in English, moreover, are often of definite literary value themselves; the English of Jowett is not only a facile medium for conveying ancient culture to the modern mind, but has real intrinsic interest...
...Governor's position is, politically speaking, a highly dangerous one. The enmities which he will acquire, which ever way he acts, will affect both his chances for the nomination, and for election if he is nominated. All that can safely be said is that on the basis of his past record he will bend both ways in an arduous effort to please both the reformers and Tammany, as he did when, after reluctantly firing Sheriff Farley, he proceeded to appoint a Tammany man as his successor. On that occasion the reformer set out to take Tammany for a ride...
...heard cases of actresses becoming affected by the parts they play, but the moment the curtain falls, I promptly forget every word. Nor am I unduly severe or morbid because of the part. And it doesn't affect me subconsciously for I never even dream about...
...absence of Princeton does not affect awards of the Thomas Jefferson Coolidge Prizes which are given on the basis of work in the trials for the triangular debate...