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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Under every stone lurks a politician.

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

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

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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

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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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By words the mind is winged

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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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

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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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