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Politics consists of two sides and a fence.

If I were asked to define politics in relation to the British public, I should define it as a spasm of pain recurring once in every four or five years.-A. E. W. Mason.

LITTLE CLARENCE (who has an inquiring mind) - "Papa, the Forty Thieves--" MR. CALLIPERS-"Now, my son, you are too young to talk politics." Puck.. "Many a man," remarked the milk toast philosopher, "has gone into politics with a fine future, and come out with a terrible past." Lord Dufferin delivered an address before the Greek class of the McGill University about which a reporter wrote: "His lordship spoke to the class in the purest ancient Greek, without mispronouncing a word or making the slightest grammatical solecism." "Good heavens!" remarked Sir Hector Langevin to the late Sir John A. Macdonald, "how did the reporter know that!" "I told him," was the Conservative statesman's answer. "But you don't know Greek." "True; but I know a little about politics." "The shortest after-dinner speech I ever heard," said Cy Warman, the poet, "was at a dinner in Providence, Rhode Island. "A man was assigned to the topic, 'The Christian in Politics.' When he was called upon he arose, bowed and said: 'Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: The Christian in Politics-he ain't.' " Politics is but the common pulse-beat of which revolution is the fever spasm.-Wendell Phillips.