All empire is no more than power in trust.
- Topic: Power, Trust
- Location: Face Rock, Oregon
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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