No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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Under every stone lurks a politician.

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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

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By words the mind is winged

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

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