"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
"We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone."
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Source: 'Collected Poems' (1939) 'The Figure a Poem Makes'
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