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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes: In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
         

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.


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