Life: January 10, 1834 - June 19, 1902
Birthday: January 10
Death: June 19
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
source: Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.
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