Arthur Cotton Museum

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    “The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.”
    —Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886)

    “We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, will often peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The back meets the front.”
    —Hawaiian saying no. 2650, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)