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Letter "D" » despot
«Add a beard and a space-despot wardrobe, and Gates has all the crowd appeal of Ming the Merciless.»
«The American backwoodsman -- clad in his hunting shirt, the product of his domestic industry, and fighting for the country he loves, he is more than a match for the vile but splendid mercenary of a European despot.»
Author: William Henry Harrison
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President)
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Keywords:
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«Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.»
«FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion.Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking.What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye --dared not See better than their master.Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers.The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. --Naramy Oof»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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The Flame,
ventured,
winking,
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«The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep»
«If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.»
«There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
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Pope I,
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The People,
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The Popes,
The Prince,
The Second,
The Third,
third,
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tyrannizes
«Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.»
«In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Author,
President)
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Keywords:
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