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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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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke

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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. – Cyril Connolly

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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. – Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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