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Quote by Emily Bronte
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they dont turn against him,

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they dont turn against him, they crush those beneath them. – Emily Bronte

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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. – Emily Bronte

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Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? – Emily Bronte

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke

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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. – Edmund Burke

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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid. – Denis Diderot

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No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise. – Alan Biole

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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. – Di Cavour

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