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So soon in these affairs, as the world has long ago found out, do bodies of men forget in a day of power the maxims that they held sacred and inviolable in days when they were weak.
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John Morley
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Morley observes that groups often abandon their principles when they gain power, contrasting past beliefs with present actions.
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