Dr John Arbuthnot

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. Source: [1] - Richard Garnett, Life of Emerson, ch. 7 (1888)

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Biography is one of the new terrors of death. Law is a bottomless pit. Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing [The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.”