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Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol.

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Wilkie Collins

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

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