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Author : David Hume
: Essays Moral, Political, and Literary
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...this concerns not the magistrate, who aims only at possibilities. He cannot cure every vise by substituting a virtue in its place. Very often he can only cure one vise by another; and in that case, he ought to prefer what is least pernicious to society.
From : Part II. Essay II. Of Refinement in the Arts..
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