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However, I thought the aphorism might be unpalatable to some in an American audience.— RedStateEclectic
They wish, in everything, to improve upon the Old Country, as they call us, and affect to be excessively refined in their language and ideas: but they forget that very often in the covering, and the covering only, consists the indecency; and that, to use the old aphorism--"Very nice people are people with very nasty ideas They object to everything nude in statuary.— Diary in America, Series One
The meaning of the aphorism is that, while the sovereign is possessed of all of the inherent dignity of royalty, it is left to him actually to exercise in but a very restricted measure the powers which are involved in the business of government.— The Governments of Europe
If he is granted recognition by the outside world, those who have known him from childhood wink slyly and repeat Phineas T. Barnum's aphorism, a free paraphrase of which the Germans have used since the days of the Vandals Leopold Mozart returned home with his wonderful boy not much richer than when he went away.— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
Hence the prohibitory system; hence paper money; hence the celebrated aphorism, "What one gains the other loses;" and all the errors which have ruined the earth, and imbrued it with blood.— Sophisms of the Protectionists

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