For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good gover… - Robert Payne

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For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

Robert Payne

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Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (4 December 1911 – 3 March 1983) was a novelist, historian, poet, and biographer. Born in Cornwall, the son of an English naval architect, and with a French mother. Payne had more than 110 books published, novels, histories and biographies.

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