The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) English writer and politician
“The Life and Writings of Addison,” Edinburg Review (1843)
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Review of Lucy Aikin, The Life of Joseph Addison (1843).

 
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