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• Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear.
  The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity....
• If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. -- Fulle
• In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master." -- Lazarus Long
• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. -- Charles de Gaulle
• You are the servant of words uttererd, the master of those suppressed. -- Confucius Say
• ...Strange smell!... Yes, that's the servant. He'll be gone. -- Mrs Pants and Edmund : Money
• The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government.
  Government, as the Father of Our Country put it so well, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master....
• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force
  like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master....
• A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly 't is a rare bird in the land.
  -- Martin Luther (1483-1546) -- Table-Talk, clvi...