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“My poor boy,” she said, with a feeling partly real, partly politic,
The Abbot 2008
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Since government is a necessary component of the body politic,
Think Progress 2009
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To restore the balance in the psyche, it must be restored in the body politic,
Words of Power 2009
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Must delicately be pursued; and though My barefaced fortune grapples lustily The height V ve reached, yet do we think it politic,
Two plays: Mantuan revels, a comedy, in five acts; Henry the Seventh, an historical tragedy, in five acts Chenevix, Richard, 1774-1830 1812
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But something doubtless I have retained, "added Tito, with a modesty which was not false, though he was conscious that it was politic,
Romola George Eliot 1849
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