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A monarchy is apt to fall by tyranny; an aristocracy, by ambition; a democracy, by tumults.

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Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 871. Printed attribution: Quarles. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105

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It is a common error to think that in politics legislation is everything and administration nothing.

Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 10715. Printed attribution: Macaulay. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105

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When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 27709. Printed attribution: Emerson. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105

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To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 25142. Printed attribution: Bible. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105

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