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People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

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Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.

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Some years back, all the best people came to bipartisan agreement that the most shameful thing a person could do with power was not to use it.
Since then everybody who wants to get ahead in Washington has made a great show of being a fierce fellow when left alone in the room with a little power. There seems to be a fear that if there is somebody around so low that it is all right to dump the garbage on him, and you hesitate, everybody will call you a sissy, and you will never be invited to lunch with Professor Kissinger.
Strange values result. Great killers are esteemed for good citizenship. "Not afraid to use power," people say of them.

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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity there is no parent left to tell them.

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