Friday, March 16, 2018
Quote of the Week
He
regretted the occasional necessity of giving one man authority over another
because some people enjoyed that authority too much to be entrusted with it.
They tended to be easily misled into an over-appraisal of their importance. It
seemed to him that when a man was too thick-headed and too low-down trifling to
hold an honest job, he was usually able to find some other damn fool willing to
hand him a measure of jurisdiction over the lives of his betters.”—T. C. Lewellen
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