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Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer it dignifies meanness it magnifies littleness to what is contemptible, it gives authority to what is low, exaltation.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Charles Colton
Diamond
Wearer
Lows
Magnifies
Authority
Littleness
Gives
Contemptible
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Dazzle
Power
Exaltation
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Beholder
Dignifies
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Meanness
Dazzles

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