It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a mans self. – Francis Bacon
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a mans self. – Francis Bacon
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. – Francis Bacon
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Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted. – Dee Dee Myers
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