It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be trul…

Francis Bacon
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. ✨ Francis Bacon (1778). The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes, p.111
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