"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."
"Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves."
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Source: Aesop (1913). “Æsop's fables: an anthology of the fabulists of all countries”, J. M. Dent & Sons, ltd.
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