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“The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.”
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- Source:
- Of Goodness.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fffcadff0e5221fc6d9787b8eb082b19a1833a3bf07229a2cc132ea7623a175d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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