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单词 power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely
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Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely


An observation that a person's sense of morality lessens as his or her power increases. The statement was made by Lord Acton, a British historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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