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The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure. Celeste Holm		Monday Jun 30, 2025
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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.