Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. - William Hazlitt

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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

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