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The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

Rutherford B. Hayes
Insane, Desire, Getting High
Letter "to a leading editor" on April 10, 1875. "The Life Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes", edited by James Quay Howard, ch. X, p. 144, www.gutenberg.org. 2007.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.