Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
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We are not nanve enough to ask for pure men we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
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