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"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
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"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."

"One who rules is ruled."

"Naysayers are frightened of their own power."
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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."


"None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again."


"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."


"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."


"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."


"The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls."
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