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For power and place men may intrigue; but in order to have influence they must more or less deserve it. Power may, at certain times, in all countries perhaps, be acquired by favor; but influence is surely the result of public opinion and of general consideration.

— Miles Gerald Keon The Jesuits (1845)

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