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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc		Saturday Oct 24, 2026
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Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within it bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes. Andrew Hamilton

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	Andrew Hamilton
	(died 1703) Colonial governor of New Jersey.

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Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within it bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes.