Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
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All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
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