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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. – Francis Bacon

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. – Francis Bacon

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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a mans nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. – Francis Bacon

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A week is a long time in politics. – Harold Wilson

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The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. Its the party of non-voters. – Robert Reich

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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. – Thomas Sowell

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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. – John Stuart Mill

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Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all — gazing into the lamp of emotional attachment, they are burnt, like moths in a flame. – Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right – instantly. – Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. – John Milton

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