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11-Jan-10I had the pleasure of going over the Hamilton Fish Bridge on I-84 twice today (that’s the (Hamilton Fish) Bridge, not the Hamilton (Fish Bridge), by the way). It’s named for one of the Hamilton Fishes, a family of New York politicians. There were several of the name, and like Roman Marcus Claudius Marcelluses or Publius Cornelius Scipios it’s not easy to tell them apart. But the following was said about one of them, that “He sometimes chipped the cube of Truth, to make it roll.” I think about it every time I cross that bridge, and always with a smile. I presume that it refers to the one the bridge is named after, because such a quality would tend, I think, to make a man successful. It’s a quality that gets bridges named after you.
Amazingly, I could not find that phrase on the internet. I might just be adding new content here.