• If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

  Source: A Distant Mirror Jean Gerson, quoted on p. 520

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  American historian 1912-1989
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1. relinquished
2. authority
3. retained
4. ought

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