A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.
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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
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