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

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By words the mind is winged

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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

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Open your mind before your mouth

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

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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.

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

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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember

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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

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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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