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

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

Francis Bacon

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