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A FRIEND IS A TREASURE
A friend is someone we turn to
When our spirits need a lift.
A friends is someone we treasure
For our friendship is a gift,
A friend is someone who fills our lives
With beauty, joy and grace
And makes the world we live in
A better and happier place.
Jean Kyler McManus
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beginning in 19th-century America, "lame duck" was used to describe a Congressional representative who had failed to get the voters into re- elect him in November, but who was not due, under the Constitution, to actually be booted out until the following March. Thus freed of even the pretense of accountability to the voters, such "lame ducks" usually voted themselves a scandalous jackpot
of perks, until a stop was put to the practice by the
"Lame Duck Amendment" of 1934. Today, new
Congresspeople take office in January, and their
defeated opponents no longer have this opportunity.
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