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  1. A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then y…

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  2. A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

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  3. The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

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