<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342802" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Four Candidates For Senator</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To flatter your way to the goad of your hope,<br>O plausible Mr. Perkins,<br>You'll need ten tons of the softest soap<br>And butter a thousand firkins.<br>The soap you could put to a better use<br>In washing your hands of ambition<br>Ere the butter's used for cooking your goose<br>To a beautiful brown condition.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'The Railroad can't run Stanford.' That is so<br>The tail can't curl the pig; but then, you know,<br>Inside the vegetable-garden's pale<br>The pig will eat more cabbage than the tail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Sargent struts by all the lawmakers say:<br>'Right-left!' It is fair to infer<br>The right will get left, nor polar the day<br>When he makes that thing to occur.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not so, not so, 'tis a joke, that cry<br>Foolish and dull and small:<br>He so bores them for votes that they mean to imply<br>He's a drill-Sargent, that is all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gods! what a sight! Astride McClure's broad back<br>Estee jogs round the Senatorial track,<br>The crowd all undecided, as they pass,<br>Whether to cheer the man or cheer the ass.<br>They stop: the man to lower his feet is seen<br>And the tired beast, withdrawing from between,<br>Mounts, as they start again, the biped's neck,<br>And scarce the crowd can say which one's on deck.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342802" data-title="Four Candidates For Senator de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="To flatter your way to the goad of your hope, O plausible Mr. Perkins, You'll need ten tons of the softest soap And butter a thousand firkins. The soap you could put to a better use In washing your hands of ambition Ere the butter's used for cooki..."></div> </div> </div>

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