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“Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Some people are born to command. Some people achieve command. And others have command thrust upon them, and the sergeant was now included in this category and wasn’t very happy about it.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“commanders have just as much authority as you let them have.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“The fact is that love is of two kinds—one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“For how shall I be able, said he, to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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