“The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
"Mr. Icky"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
“At breaking the backbone on the people's rights.”
Lunatic. 6
पागल (The Lunatic)
Context: I see the blind man as the people's guide, the ascetic in his cave a deserter; those who act in the theater of lies I see as dark buffoons. Those who fail I find successful, and progress only backsliding. am I squint-eyed, Or just crazy? Friend, I'm crazy. Look at the withered tongues of shameless leaders, The dance of the whores At breaking the backbone on the people's rights. When the sparrow-headed newsprint spreads its black lies In a web of falsehood
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