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“Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.”

Jonathan Swift · Power

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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

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