A Quote by Sean Wilentz
Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.
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Side and whoever loses he wins; when he
Is defeated it is hard to say who wins.
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How a person wins and loses is much more important
than how much a person wins and loses.
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The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.
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