The people wouldn't have minded much if I had been accused of robbin' the city treasury, for they're used to slanders of that kind in campaigns, but the automobile and the dress suit were too much for them.
Another thing that people won't stand for is showin' off your learnin'.
That's just puttin' on style in another way.

If you're makin' speeches in a campaign, talk the language the people talk.

Don't try to show how the situation is by quotin' Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was all right in his way, but he didn't know anything about Fifteenth District politics.
If you know Latin and Greek and have a hankerin' to work them off on somebody, hire a stranger to come to your house and listen to you for a couple of hours; then go out and talk the language of the Fifteenth to the people.

I know it's an awful temptation, the hankerin' to show off your learnin'.