"Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite."
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"The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power."
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"Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other."
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"I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree."
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"When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word."
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