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By Calvin Coolidge
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuges, it is always simple and direct.
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- The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, 1929 · p. 134
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1929 first trade edition, New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation)
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From The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929). This is the text of the first trade edition. Coolidge writes it about his 1918 campaign for Governor of Massachusetts. The sentence that follows is: "That is the reason that intrigue usually falls of its own weight." The book prints "subterfuges," in the plural; the popular version says "subterfuge."