# Quote — John Steinbeck, The Short Reign of Pippin IV

> Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps fear of a loss of power.

- Author: [John Steinbeck](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck.md)
- Book: [The Short Reign of Pippin IV](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/the-short-reign-of-pippin-iv.md)
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> I have known many people to ask for advice but very few who wanted it and none who followed it.

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> The human fetus is born upside down. But it is not true that a child becomes upright after birth. Observe the feet of children and young people when they are at rest. The feet are nearly always higher than the head, No matter how hard he may try, the growing boy, and particularly girl, cannot keep the feet down. The fetal position is very strong. It takes eighteen to twenty years for the feet finally to accept the ground as their normal home. It is my hypothesis that you can judge maturity exactly by the relationship of the feet to the ground.

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> I don't anticipate trouble and so I anticipate trouble.

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