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  • All those men become its enemy partisans who avail themselves of the tyrannical state, feeding on the riches of the Prince, [and] who when they are deprived of the faculty of thus availing themselves, cannot live content, and some are forced to attempt to reestablish the tyrancy so as to recover their authority.

    Discourses 2003

  • For those not familiar with the blog, readers from all around can submit notes and other examples of passive aggressive or just aggressive-ness in action so that everyone can laugh at someone’s petty tyrancy.

    Scare Clare: The Potluck Photo Contest 2008

  • For those not familiar with the blog, readers from all around can submit notes and other examples of passive aggressive or just aggressive-ness in action so that everyone can laugh at someone’s petty tyrancy.

    Not Eating Out in New York » 2008 » December 2008

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