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“Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.”
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- Source:
- Queen Mab. iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c32981b1788d186a4f567a1435a45015ade81ffcdae20e8b46790a51702190c3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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