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1. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
2. A new broom sweeps clean.
3. Ergo: Revolutionaries go to heaven.
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1. Beer is made by men, wine by God.
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2. God made only water, but man made wine.
3. Ergo: Oenology is just another theological dispute.
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1. That government is best which governs least.
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2. Bread and circuses.
3. Ergo: Protection of business and industry has an absolute minimum.
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Always something new out of Africa (Pliny the Elder).
2 Nothing new under the sun (the Vulgate, Ecclesiastes 1:9).
3 Tolstoy.
4 Publilius Syrus.
5 Shakespeare.
6 Carl Sagan.
7 George Herbert.
8 Lost in antiquity.
9 The practice of religion leads people to practice evil (Lucretius).
10 Out of the north comes all evil (the Vulgate, Jeremiah 1:14).
11 Martin Luther.
12 Victor Hugo.
13 John L. O’Sullivan.
14 Juvenal.
