Considering the temptations under which politicians are pla… - Henry Taylor

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Considering the temptations under which politicians are placed, of changing their opinions, or rather their professions of opinion, from motives of self interest, the world will not give them credit for motives of honest conviction, unless when the change shall be to their manifest loss and disadvantage.

Henry Taylor

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Sir Henry Taylor KCMG (18 October 1800 – 27 March 1886) was an English civil servant, author and dramatist.

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I have not skill
From such a sharp and waspish word as "No"
To pluck the sting.

Shy and proud men … are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

It has been said of compliments, that men are most flattered by having the merits attributed to them which they least possess; but as it is only by liars that such compliments can be proffered, so it is only with fools that they can find a favourable acceptation.

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