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• The great corrupter of public man is the ego.... Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. — Dean Acheson
• No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty. — Herbert Hoover
• There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second… — Georges Pompidou
• Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man… — Lyn Nofziger
• A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a… — Lord Acton
• The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary,… — Daniel J. Boorstin
• A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views. — Charles Dickens
• I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear… — Francis Walsingham
• The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man. — Winston Churchill
• The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. — Abraham Lincoln

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