Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
OuidaIntensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
OuidaWhen passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
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