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The English Are Busy Folk; They Have No Time In Which To Be Polite.

When Virtue Is Banished, Ambition Invades The Minds Of Those Who Are Disposed To Receive It And Avarice Possesses The Whole Community.

Honor Sets All The Parts Of The Body Politic In Motion, And By Its Very Action Connects Them; Thus Each Individual Advances The Public Good, While He Only Thinks Of Promoting His Own Interest.

When A Government Is Arrived To That Degree Of Corruption As To Be Incapable Of Reforming Itself, It Would Not Lose Much By Being New Moulded.

When The Legislative And Executive Powers Are United In The Same Person, Or In The Same Body Of Magistrates, There Can Be No Liberty; Because Apprehensions May Arise, Lest The Same Monarch Or Senate Should Enact Tyrannical Laws, To Execute Them In A Tyrannical Manner.