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Quote from Thomas Paine,


"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."


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Thomas Paine (more quotes by Thomas Paine or books by/about Thomas Paine)


(1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author

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Corruption, Crime, Honesty, Integrity, Society

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