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By John Costa / The Bulletin
September 20, 2009
There is a wonderful line attributed, though without a lot of historical evidence, to the 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
Whether or not he’s the author, Mark Twain popularized the phrase in the United States: “Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the....