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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

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Charles de Secondat
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Category: Experience

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films you just can't.
  • 2. It were a real increase of human happiness could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings till they emerged sadder and wiser at the age of twenty-five.
  • 3. It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood all the work into middle age and all the regrets into old age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job her family and her community and has been a role model of mine for many many years. I'm extremely proud of her.
  • 2. I don't want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.
  • 3. The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area the better.

3 Anger

  • 1. I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine if you want – but also some sort of sadness and plain mischief of course.
  • 2. Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.
  • 3. Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 2. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 3. Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

5 Architecture

  • 1. In my experience if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg it's modern architecture.
  • 2. I don't find Hollywood interesting so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
  • 3. What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
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