"If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog."

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I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it's such a sweet trap.

— John Steinbeck