• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819-1891
  

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1. statesmanship
2. temporary
3. expedient
4. politics
5. almost
6. unwise

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