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civil servant

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a public official who is a member of the civil service

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There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors. Chester A. Arthur

If I want to be truly happy, I have to be a part of state action - a civil servant. Wolfgang Drechsler

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant. Doris Lessing

Maugham was a mere visitor and did not have to take any language examinations; a civil servant like myself was forced to reach degree level in Malay.... Anthony Burgess

Never have I had such great minds around me-Smuts, Balfour, Bonar Law...and Curzon. Curzon was perhaps not a great man, but he was a supreme Civil Servant. Compared to these men, the front benches of today are pigmies. David Lloyd George

He who is hungry is never a good civil servant. Chinese Proverb

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