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No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.
No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.
The rule of the road is a paradox quite,
If you drive with a whip or a thong;
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The rule of the road is a paradox quite,
If you drive with a whip or a thong;
If you go to the left you are sure to be right,
If you go to the right you are wrong.
But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.
But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they
may.
He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they
may.
For right is right, since God is God,
And right the day must win;
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For right is right, since God is God,
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin.
Might was the measure of right.
[Lat., Mensuraque juris
Vis erat.]
Might was the measure of right.
[Lat., Mensuraque juris
Vis erat.]
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
