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"The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office."

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Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

— Theognis of Megara

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There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

— Edmund Burke

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