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E. Digby Baltzell Quotes: The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.
         

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.


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