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«War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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War
| Keywords:
assassin, hired, hiring, jest, jesting, lawyer, priest, statesman, The Assassin, The Assassins, The Statesman, trade
«We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -bolts it, And we accost no more»
«What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.»
«Sweetest love, I do not go, / For weariness of thee, / Nor in hope the world can show / A fitter Love for me; / But since that I / Must die at last, 'tis best / To use myself in jest, / Thus by feigned deaths to die.»
«Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges,»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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achievements, distinguish, distinguished, jest, jesting, note, Real Character, sieges, small person, The Siege, vices
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