"If you can't lick 'em, jine 'em."
— Compromise
January 1, 1970
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Attributed to Senator James Eli Watson, in Frank R. Kent The Atlantic Monthly (February 1932), p. 188; Kent referred to this as "one of his favorite sayings". Reported as not found in Watson's memoirs in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
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Attributed to Senator James Eli Watson, in Frank R. Kent The Atlantic Monthly (February 1932), p. 188; Kent referred to this as "one of his favorite sayings". Reported as not found in Watson's memoirs in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).