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title: "2 Higher Morality Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“Perhaps the most that can be said is that HCM had become a prisoner of his own creation, a fly in amber, unable in his state of declining influence to escape the inexorable logic of a system that sacrificed the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-j-duiker/perhaps-the-most-that-can-be-said-is-that-hcm-had-become-a-prisoner/)

[William J. Duiker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-j-duiker/)

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> [Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-m-evarts/tracing-the-progress-of-mankind-in-the-ascending-path-of-civilization/)

[William M. Evarts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-m-evarts/)

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