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Letters on a Regicide Peace, Letter 1 (1796) - Burke, Edmund | WIST Quotations
Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, but a constant, steady, uniform, insensible…