
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Sur la politique
Manuel de savoir-vivre à l'usage des rustres et des malpolis
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Sur la politique
Karl Marx, Souvenirs personnels, 1890
Ne devrait-on pas dire plutôt, 'se glorifier de'? »
"You'll never be wanted," he said, and thrust at me a smaller piece of paper. This described me as being incapable of being graded in grades A, B, etc., because I suffered from sexual perversion. When the story of my disgrace became one of the contemporary fables of Chelsea, a certain Miss Marshall said, "I don't much care for the expression 'suffering from.' Shouldn't it be 'glorying in'?"
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The Naked Civil Servant (Fonctionnaire du nu)
Tome 2, Jugements littéraires, Prosateurs, philosophes, publicistes, etc.