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DEMOCRACY
DENTISTRY
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Their tables were stor'd full, to glad the sight,
And not so much to feed on as delight:
All poverty was scorn'd, and pride so great,
The name of help grew odious to repeat.

Pericles. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 28.


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These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.

Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 6. L. 9.


DEMOCRACY

(See also Government, Public, Statesmanship

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For poets (bear the word)
Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

E. B. BrowningAurora Leigh. Bk. 4.


A perfect democracy is therefore the most
shameless thing in the world.
Burke—Reflections on the Revolution in France.


And wrinkles, the d—d democrats, won't natter.
 | author = Byron
 | work = Don Juan. Canto X. St. XXIV.


You can never have a revolution in order to
establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
G. K. Chesterton—Tremendous Trifles.
Wind and the trees.


Le Cesarisme, c'est la' democratic sans la liberty.
Csesarism is democracy without liberty.
Taxtt.fi Delord—L'Histoire du Second Empire.
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 | text = The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benj. Disraeli—Lothair. Ch. XVTI.


Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more
colossal scale than ever before.
Charles Fletcher Dole—The Spirit of
Democracy.


Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.
Dryden—Absalom and Achitopel. Pt. I. L.
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Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed
of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the
egg of democracy.
 | author = Lowell
 | work = Among My Books. New England
Two Centuries Ago.


Democ'acy gives every man
A right to be his own oppressor.
 | author = Lowell
 | work = Biglow Papers. Series 2. No. 7.


Thus our democracy was from an early period
the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the
most democratic.
Macaulay—History. Vol. I. P. 20.


To one that advised him to set up a democracy
in Sparta, 'Tray," said Lycurgus, "do you first
set up a democracy in your own house."
Lycurgus in Plutarch's Apophthegms of
Kings and Cheat Commanders.


Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes.

Walt WhitmanDrum-Taps. Rise O Days From Your Fathomless Deep. No. 3.


But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts—for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety -to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

Woodrow WilsonAddress to Congress. April 2, 1917.
(See also under War)


I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

Woodrow WilsonAt the Workingman's Dinner, New York, Sept. 4, 1912.


The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.

Woodrow WilsonAddress to Congress. April 2, 1917. (State of War with Germany.)


DENTISTRY

My curse upon thy venom'd stang,
That shoots my tortured gums alang;
And through my lugs gies monie a twang,
WT gnawing vengeance,
Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang,
Like racking engines!
Burns—Address to the Toothache.


One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.
Hazlitt—Shakespeare Jest Books. Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimsies. No. 84.
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 | text = <poem>Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where,
Then spoke I to my girle,
To part her lips, and showed them there
The quarelets of pearl.

HerrickThe Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls.


Those cherries fairly do enclose
Of orient pearl a double row,
Which, when her lovely laughter shows,
They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow.
Set to music by Richard Alison—An Houre's Recreation in Musike. See Oliphant's La Messa Madrigalesca. P. 229.