Famous quotes containing the words assumed and/or powers:
“Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“The powers that be are ordained of God.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Romans, 13:1.
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