A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

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Open your mind before your mouth

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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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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.

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

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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

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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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By words the mind is winged

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

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