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1 everyone speaks well of the bridge which carries him over
var: praise the bridge that carries you oversyn: everybody loves a lordкожен говорить добре про тих, від кого він залежитьEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > everyone speaks well of the bridge which carries him over
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2 praise the bridge that carries you over
English-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > praise the bridge that carries you over
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3 everybody loves a lord
English-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > everybody loves a lord
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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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