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• Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrate
  The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain....
• Small things make base men proud. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI
• Baseball players make it to first base.
• Needs another brain to make half-wit.
• Slander meets no regard from noble minds; only the base believe what the base only utter.
  -- Belle...
• So do the noble fall. For they are ever caught in a trap of their own making.
  A trap -- walled by duty, and locked by reality. Against the greater force they must fall -- for, against that force they fight because of duty, because of obligations....
• Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
  -- Brooke Foss Westco...
• Conscience doth make cowards of us all. -- Shakespeare