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Show Made Wise Choice "I would rather be a doodle bug burrowing in the dust . than a plotting, grafting politician. I would rather be a peddler ped-dler of peanuts than a bond-grabber and boodler with prjvil- ; j ege of despoiling the pantries of the poor. I would rather j play a cornstalk fiddle while pickaninies danced than build of widows' sighs and orpans' tears a flimsy bauble of fame to be i blown down the narrow beach of time into eternity's shoreless sea. I would rather be the beggar lord of a lodge in the wilderness wild-erness and live on hominy and hope, yet see the lovelight beam in unbought, truthful eyes than to be the marauding conqueror of the mighty world and know not who fawned up- , on the master and who esteemed the man." Brann |
