Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
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The man who listens to Reason is lost Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
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What is laisser-faire but an orthodoxy The most tyrannous and disastrous of all the orthodoxies, since it forbids you even to learn.
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