Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1600. National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Thirtieth U.S. president Calvin Coolidge, nicknamed “Silent Cal,” once sat next to a woman at a dinner party who reportedly said to him, “I have made a bet, Mr. Coolidge, that I could get more than two words out of you.” To which he replied, “You lose.”
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943
