Politicians--power itself--are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives.... One sho
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Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a mo
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You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close
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In all sincerity, we offer to the loved ones of all innocent victims over the past 25 years, abject and true remorse. No words of
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If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,
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This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State:
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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
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