Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it... One must have the courage to dare.

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Mill, John Stuart. An Examination of Sir. William Hamilton's Philosophy. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, edited by John M. Robson. Vol. 9, Routledge, 2009, ch. 7.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment, translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Idiot, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky. Vintage, 2003, pt. 1, ch. 6.