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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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