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Nothing destroyeth authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power pressed too far, and relaxed too much.

Source: Essays, 'Of Empire'
-- Francis Bacon, (Jan 22 1561-1626), English philosopher, statesman, essayist; He was an early advocate of inductive learning from intensive observation; wrote Novum Organum, 1620.

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