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What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

Gilbert Highet

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

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About Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Arthur Highet (; June 22, 1906 – January 20, 1978) was a Scottish American classicist, academic writer, intellectual critic, and literary historian.