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Letter "P" » patronage
«Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.»
«Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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«I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God.»
«Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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«I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply, not into the market, not into opinion, not into patronage»
«We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government»