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I always voted at my party's call,
And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

— W. S. Gilbert

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Things are seldom what they seem;
Skim milk masquerades as cream.

H.M.S. Pinafore (1878)

Three little maids from school are we,
Pert as a schoolgirl well can be,
Filled to the brim with girlish glee.

When your process of extermination begins, let our deaths be as swift and painless as you can conveniently make them.

The Pirates of Penzance (1879)

Man is a ribald—Man’s a rake,
Man is Nature’s sole mistake!

She may very well pass for forty three
In the dusk with the light behind her.

Trial by Jury (1875)

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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