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the best government is that in which the law speaks instead of the lawyer better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven a crown is no cure for a headache divide and rule dress a monkey as you will, it remains a monkey still everyone speaks well of the bridge which carries him over fish begins to stink at the head the great fish eat up the small he sits not sure that sits too high he that cannot obey cannot command high places have their precipices the higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail if you can't command yourself, you can't command others it is better for a town to be governed by a good man than by good laws it is ill sitting at Rome and striving with the Pope the king can do no wrong kings have long arms a new broom sweeps clean the pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God the statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician sudden power is apt to be insolent, sudden liberty saucy; that behaves best which has grown gradually that government is best which governs least
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High and Mighty — Pour les articles homonymes, voir High Mighty. High and Mighty Pays d’origine Philadelphie … Wikipédia en Français
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high-and-mighty — {adj.}, {informal} Feeling more important or superior to someone else; too proud of yourself. * /John wasn t invited to the party, because he acted too high and mighty./ * /Mary become high and mighty when she won the prize, and Joan would not go … Dictionary of American idioms
High and mighty — High High, a. [Compar. {Higher}; superl. {Highest}.] [OE. high, hegh, hey, heh, AS. he[ a]h, h?h; akin to OS. h?h, OFries. hag, hach, D. hoog, OHG. h?h, G. hoch, Icel. h?r, Sw. h[ o]g, Dan. h[ o]i, Goth. hauhs, and to Icel. haugr mound, G. h[… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
high and mighty — The high and mighty are the people with authority and power. If a person is high and mighty, they behave in a superior and condescending way … The small dictionary of idiomes
high-and-mighty — a. conceited and arrogant; imperious. [PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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