“You and I both know,” she said, “that a large nation should be governed as if it is a series of chocolate-covered candies taken from a dish, one by one. They should never be scooped, these candies, never greedily grabbed. They should not be eaten all at once, but rather one by one, to savor the taste, to preserve the period in which the dish can be viewed as still mostly full. Wise leaders cause no harm intentionally. Any harm is a single shard of candied shell, thrown free of the chocolate.” The president turned and smiled at his wife. She had done it again!
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