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  • The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

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    Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.520
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