The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest piece…

Alexander Pope
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order. ✨ Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1812). The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes, p.227
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