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- Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
- Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
- Ernest Benn
- Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
- Lester B. Pearson (1897 - 1972)
- Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
- Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
- The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
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