Remember, Mustapha,' continued he, 'that reading and writing only clog the wheels of government.'

To clog the wheels continually is to stand still, and to stand still is to retreat.

Therefore he passed for a very moderate Whig; for one who would not clog the wheels of government.

I could no more refuse this invitation of Washington's than I could clog the wheels of my mind to inaction.

A moderate amount of friction-provided it did not wholly clog the wheels of administration -wasnot deemed an unmixed evil.

Nothing astonishes me more, when a little sickness clogs the wheels of life, than the thoughtless career we run in the hour of health.