“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!”
Sir Walter Scott
1771 – 1832
From his poem “Marmion,” 1808.
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Learning to live with a corrupt government
Government corruption is so evident in Argentina, the locals even have a joke for it. That joke provides this week’s “Words Worth Thinking About.”
“There are four types of countries in the world. First world. Third world. Japan, where nobody can figure out how they did so much with so little. And Argentina, where nobody can figure out how we did so little with so much.”
Joel Bowman From Bonner Private Research https://bonnerprivateresearch.substac…
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Easily Cracked
“Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.”
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1750
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Afraid of being laughed at
“Christians are afraid to speak of God — they run down with the stream; if they come into worldly company, they will talk of the world as if they were in their element; … The time has been when you had something to say for your dear Lord; but now you can go into company and hear others speaking about the world bold enough, and you are afraid of being laughed at if you speak for Jesus Christ.”
George Whitefield
The Collected Sermons of George Whitefield.
“The Method of Grace” (Jeremiah 6:14)
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The Last Bipartisan Trait
“… our leaders are cowards, and the cowardice runs across both parties. It may be the last bipartisan trait.”
Alex Berenson
From his Free Newsletter
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