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Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions

Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. – Wilhelm von Humboldt

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