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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all passions.

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About Dixon Lanier Merritt

Dixon Lanier Merritt

Dixon Lanier Merritt

Dixon Lanier Merritt (1879 - 1972) was a poet and humorist. He was a newspaper editor for the Tennessean, Nashville's morning paper, and President of the American Press Humorists Association. Dixon Merritt also served as a chef in the army, where he first began writing his limericks to cheer up the soldiers. He penned this famous limerick in 1910.

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