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"In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor."
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"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."

"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."

"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."
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"Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound."
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"What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it."

"The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't."

"Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build."

"For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character."

"A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence."

"It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written."

"Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family."

"No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable."
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