More from Joshua Abraham Norton

  1. Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Hermann Hesse. Only a handful understood Albert Einstein. And nobody understood Emperor …
  2. They say that the world rests on the backs of 36 living saints - 36 unselfish men and women. Because of them the world continues to exist. …
  3. The heritage of honor and integrity that he had handed down while in his affluence, was never squandered nor dissipated, and so he bore the…
  4. On the reeking pavement, in the darkness of a moonless night under the dripping rain, and surrounded by a hastily gathered crowd of wonderi…
  5. Last night at 8:15, Joshua Norton, universally known, and known almost only as Emperor Norton, died suddenly in this city. The similar deat…
  6. I could argue all day about the significance of facing east in religious rituals, but a clean table is a clean table.
  7. The following is decreed and ordered to be carried into execution as soon as convenient: I. That a suspension bridge be built from Oakland …
  8. Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic a…

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