James Smith

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    The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    This Englishwoman is so refined
    She has no bosom and no behind.
    —Stevie Smith (1902–1971)