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• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
  Thomas Jefferson [letter,1807]...
• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- Life of Jefferson (Rayner), p. 356...
• ABSTAINER: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
• Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
• Persistently ill, and still does not die.
• Abstainer, n.: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. Italian Proverb