Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

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1. Always be introduced by someone you’ve appointed to high office.

2. When you’re starting to have a good time, you’re supposed to be someplace else.

3. There is no such thing as enough money.

4. If someone tells you it’s not a money problem, it’s someone else’s problem.

5. When someone tells you it’s not personal, they’re fixing to stick it to you.

6. Nearly everyone will lie to you given the right circumstance.

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If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.

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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

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When in charge ponder; when in trouble delegate; when in doubt mumble.

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Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker it breeds contempt for the law.

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Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

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Men readily believe what they want to believe.

As a rule, men’s minds are more deeply disturbed by what they do not see.

What we desire, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we expect others to think.

Chance, which means a great deal in all sorts of circumstances but especially in war, can effect great changes with a very slight shift of the balance.

Avoid a strange and unfamiliar word as you would a dangerous reef.

If you must break the law, do it only to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

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You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.

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The first law is that the historian shall never dare to set down what is false; the second that he shall never dare to conceal the truth; the third that there shall be no suspicion in his work of either favouritism or prejudice.

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