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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Lord Byron
Fall, Tyrants, Gentleman
Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.26, Gerald Duckworth & Co
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.