Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after the date.
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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
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