A politician who talks a good game.
“Through all the employments of life,
Each neighbour abuses his brother;
Whore and rogue, they call husband and wife;
All professions be-rogue one another.
The priest calls the lawyer a cheat;
The lawyer be-knaves the divine;
And the statesman, because he’s so great,
Thinks his trade as honest as mine.”
John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera (1728).
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