Gabriel Valley

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    To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
    —HonorĂ© Gabriel Riquet, Comte De Mirabeau (1749–1791)

    I will frankly declare, that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But alas! since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of-war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)