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No man can truthfully say that he would not like to / be President. -- "William C. Whitney."
Lo! the wild rabbit, happy in the pride / Of qualities to meaner beasts denied, / Surveys the ass with reverence and fear, / Adoring his superior length of ear, / And says: "No living creature, lean or fat, / But wishes in his heart to be like That!"