LAWYER, n.
One skilled in circumvention of the law.

POLITICIAN, n.
An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.