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"Thus every Part was full of Vice, Yet the whole Mass a Paradise; Flatterd in Peace, and feard in Wars, They were th Esteem of Foreigners, And lavish of their Wealth and Lives, The Balance of all other Hives."
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Bernard MandevilleThe Multitude will hardly believe the excessive Force of Education, an — Bernard Mandeville
"The Multitude will hardly believe the excessive Force of Education, and in the difference of Modesty between Men and Women ascribe that to Nature, which is altogether owing to early Instruction: Miss is scarce Three years old, but she is spoke to every Day to hide her Leg, and rebukd in good Earnest if she shews it; while Little Master at the same Age is bid to take up his Coats, and piss like a Man."
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Bernard Mandeville
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Bernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville, was an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist, satirist, writer and physician. Born in Rotterdam, he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works. He became famous for The Fable of the Bees.
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"They put off hearings wilfully, To finger the refreshing fee."
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"The worst of all the Multitude Did something for the Common Good."
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"Luxury Employd a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy it self, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress, That strange ridiclous Vice, was made The very Wheel that turnd the Trade."
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"Thus Vice nursd Ingenuity, Which joind with Time and Industry, Had carryd Lifes Conveniences, Its real Pleasures, Comforts, Ease, To such a Height, the very Poor Livd better than the Rich before."
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"They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies."
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