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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits...more

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Courage and fear were one thing too.

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She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the...more

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Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which there had once been colored flowe...more

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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I knew beyond ...more