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The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.
Warren G. Harding
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Warren G. Harding
Age: 57 †
Born: 1865
Born: November 2
Died: 1923
Died: August 2
29Th U.S. President
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Blooming Grove
Ohio
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Warren Gamaliel Harding
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I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.
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Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
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I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine.
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I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
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