I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
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