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We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet
Wisdom, Power, Done
'Litany for Dictatorships' (1935)
We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.