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Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

-Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

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