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He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more. - Francis Atterbury Here and there some stern high patriot stood, Who could not get the place for which he sued. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it. - Jean Baptiste Colbert High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit--reptiles and eagles. - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking. - James Ellis Office without pay makes thieves. - Daniel Heinsius The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favors. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) If ever this free people, if this government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this human wriggle and struggle for office--that is, a way to live without work. - Abraham Lincoln Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard. - Thomas Babington Macaulay Every fresh appointment I make produces for me one cool friend and one hundred earnest enemies. - Marcus Morton Five things are requisite to a good officer--ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality. - William Penn It is the curse of service; preferment goes by letter and affection, not by the old gradation where each second stood heir to the first. - William Shakespeare O place and greatness! millions of false eyes Are stuck upon thee; volumes of reports Run with these false and most contrarious quests Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit Make thee the father of their idle dream, And wrack thee in their fancies. - William Shakespeare When impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. - William Shakespeare All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office. - George Washington The office should seek the man, not man the office. - Silas Wright
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