The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. (Henry Adams)

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Henry Adams

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