“Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.”
Source : Lauren Willig (2011). “The Orchid Affair: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.299, Penguin
“Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.”
Source : Azar Nafisi (2009). “Things I've Been Silent About: Memories”, p.23, Random House
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.462, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Boss Tweed
New York State Senator
Charles Sumner
Former United States Senator
Hjalmar Schacht
Economist
James G. Blaine
Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
John Brown
Abolitionist
Margaret Fuller
Journalist
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th U.S. President
Samuel J. Tilden
Former Governor of New York
Ulysses S. Grant
18th U.S. President