Men (and Women)
are qualified for civil duty and civil liberty in exact proportion to
their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in
proportion as their love for justice is above their rapacity, — in
proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above
their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more disposed
to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the
flattery of knaves.
Edmund Burke
Happy shaving (and thinking)!
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