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After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides the most satisfactory description of ruler.
“There are times, I don’t know if they come to everyone, when I feel that the future is beyond my strength: too much horror to deal with and no help to turn to.”
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
“There was a magnificent legal staff, a mechanism such as is possessed by every state before its political, economic and moral collapse.”
― The Good Soldier Schweik
― The Good Soldier Schweik
“On the whole it’s not wise to remind the devil that he’s the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.”
― The Lady from Zagreb
― The Lady from Zagreb
“killers are like the army, dull and dangerous simultaneously.”
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
“I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it’s sharp as a nun on her second sherry.”
― The Devil
― The Devil
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