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> [For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/for-if-you-suffer-your-people-to-be-ill-educated-and-their-manners-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Until you put these things to right, you're not entitled to boast of the justice meted out to thieves, for it's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-more/until-you-put-these-things-to-right-you-re-not-entitled-to-boast-of/)

[Thomas More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-more/)

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> [If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bubbles/if-you-suffer-your-people-to-be-ill-educated-and-their-manners/)

[Bubbles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bubbles/)

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