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A Civil servant is someone promoted to high government office to supervise the distribution of the graft.
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A Civil servant is one who writes minutes. makes professional assessments, is never attacked face to face, dwells in the Sargasso Sea of the Civil Service and who loves the seaweed that conceals him.
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A Civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon — it won't work and you can't fire it.
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