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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
William Howard Taft
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William Howard Taft
Age: 72 †
Born: 1857
Born: September 15
Died: 1930
Died: March 8
27Th U.S. President
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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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