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  1. Most of this, I suppose, is undisputed, and calls for no enlargement. But the weight of opinion is against me when I exhort you never to debase the moral curre…

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  2. I am not thinking of those shining precepts which are the registered property of every school; that is to say - learn as much by writing as by reading; be not …

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  3. Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. But i…

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