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• Any excuse will serve a tyrant. -- Aesop
• Any excuse will serve a tyrant. AESOP
• Any excuse will serve a tyrant. -- Aesop (620-560 B.C.)
• Any excuse will serve a tyrant. -- Aesop (620-560 BCE) Aesop's Fable
  "The Wolf and the Lamb...
• Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an enemy, must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
  -- Aesop (620-560 B.C.)...
• Any excuse to wear a sword is a good excuse
• DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Distrust interested advice. -- Aesop