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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000025.txt from 2004/05

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 19:19:42 -0400


"Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be=20
convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand, the numberless be=
nefits=20
which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and=20
taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of=20
certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything."

-Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689=E2=80=931755) French philosophe=
r, lawyer
"The Spirit of Laws," (1748)

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