"I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.“


-Napoleon Bonaparte

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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

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