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3491. GOVERNMENT, Corruption and.—
In every government on earth is some trace
of human weakness, some germ of corruption
and degeneracy, which cunning will discover,
and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and
improve.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 390.
Ford ed., iii, 254.
(1782)
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