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    I believe that Harmon would be the easiest to defeat, though he might gain much strength from the Republicans. Clark would surely lose New York. I am beginning to feel that by some stroke of genius they may name Woodrow Wilson, and that seems a pretty hard tussle.
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)