There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted

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

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Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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Its totally corrupt man. – James Dye

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

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The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. – Bess Myerson

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