“You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.”
Speech of Adlai Stevenson, Los Angeles (1956), written by Galbraith
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 596.
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Saxum volutum non obducitur musco
Maxim 524
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“The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.”
Part I, chapter 11.
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“4057. Rolling Stones gather no Moss.”
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