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“Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.”

Ifs Men Play Care Humanity Hours Leader Four Streets Strange Ready Optimism Towns Following Pleasant Tunes March Rhyme Banner Fondness Procession

Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

“From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I knowA woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.”

Two Bigs Faces Night Four One Thing Heard Wind Towns Mobile Memphis

Author:Johnny Mercer

“I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.”

Cities Four Degrees Destruction Towns Intelligence Stupidity

Book:The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index

Source: The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index

“I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten - it's a first-class league with great towns and great fans.”

Feels Years Firsts Bigs Opportunity Class Four Player Fans Ten Towns Blessed Eight Coaches League Four Years Conferences First Class Great Fans

Author:Steve Alford

“The arresting officer, who I had literally known, all my life. You know what I mean? This guy lived four doors down the street me, in a town of less than four hundred people. *We've met.* Now, he takes me to jail, and he asks me if I have any aliases. And I was just being a smartass, and I said, "Yeah. They call me, "Tater Salad!" Seventeen years later, I'm handcuffed on a bench in New York with blood coming out of my nose, and this cop goes, "Are you Ron 'Tater Salad' White?"”

“Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.”

Play Home Five Four Higher Limits Twenties Towns Glasses Beer Decent Cents Twenty Five Home Town

Book:O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature

Source: O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature

“Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk with them and they tell me all types of old stories, and sometimes I might even pull my horn out in the middle of the block, and they're playing on beer bottles and different things, and we just do a little second line type thing, just us, four or five people, who are just having fun. That makes me day to be able to do that and go hang out with the people in the (Treme) neighborhood, and to do some shows around town, you know?”

“In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific facilities. Thirty-four months after the purchase, an atomic blast lit the New Mexico desert. After 43 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still struggle to cope with improvised explosive devices.”

Stills Government Force Struggle Four Months Towns Iraq Desert Thirty Wilderness Devices Mexico September Eastern Lit Facility Blast Oaks Explosives Acres Tennessee Ridges New Mexico

Author:George Will