It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people…

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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. ✨ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Fit the Twelfth (radio program) (1980) See Twain 14
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