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• Wisdom suffers only when triumph meets conviction.
• There comes a time in a man's life when he must rise above principle.
• Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, and the other to be buried.
  -- Colto...
• When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. -- East African Proverb
• When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers. African Proverb
• When independence of principle consists in having no principle on which to depend -- C.C. Colto
• When you have nothing to say, say nothing. -- Charles Caleb Colto
• Politician, n.: An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared.
  When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice....