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- People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.
- Joseph Sobran
- Praise the young and they will flourish.
- Irish Proverb
- Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
- Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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