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“It is the mark of a tyrant, indeed an underhand deception, to treat people at large the way that animal trainers customarily treat a wild beast; for their prime concern is to observe what pacifies it or what arouses it, and they provoke or soothe it to suit their own convenience.”
― Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria

“Originality is the art of concealing your source”
― Franklin P. Jones

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
― Desiderius Erasmus

“I might go on for long to justify one point and own another indefensible; it is more honest to confess at once how little I am touched by the desire of accuracy.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped