“Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.”

As quoted in Woman Through the Ages;; (1908) by Emil Reich, p. 155

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