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“If thou be invited of a mighty man, withdraw thyself, and so much the more will he invite thee. Press thou not upon him, lest thou be put back; stand not far off, lest thou be forgotten.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 13:9-10.
“To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (18831955)
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