Harriet Martineau , English writer

said about Help, Laws, May, Observation, Vice...

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"Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it."
- Harriet Martineau

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