Phelps Taft II

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    To exist as an advertisement of her husband’s income, or her father’s generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)