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> # 'The Acton - Lee Correspondence' (1866)

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## More from John Acton

1. > The History of Freedom and Other Essays (1907) downloadable in HTML and PDF formats

[Permalink to quote \#29](https://quotesby.net/John-Acton/29/ "Permalink to quote 29")
2. > Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the tablets of eternity.

[Permalink to quote \#25](https://quotesby.net/John-Acton/25/ "Permalink to quote 25")
3. > 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…

[Permalink to quote \#24](https://quotesby.net/John-Acton/24/ "Permalink to quote 24")

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