"the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading……" — Elizabeth Bowen

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• The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to… — Thomas Jefferson
• It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions,… — James Madison
• The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture,… — George William Curtis
• Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool. — Edward Abbey
• In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will… — Thomas Jefferson
• Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate,… — Martin Luther
• Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here… — Sterling W Sill
• It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will,… — Aleister Crowley
• "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which… — Thomas Jefferson
• Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us… — Thomas Jefferson
• But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of… — Joseph Addison
• Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination,… — Thomas B. Macaulay

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