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Quote by Edmund Burke
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. - Edm

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. – Edmund Burke

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Art
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Edmund Burke
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. – Edmund Burke

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There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. – Scottish Proverb

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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will. – William Shakespeare

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It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. – Publilius Syrus

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The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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