LIV.--Luxury and too refined a policy in states are a sure presage of … — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
SAPIR 861
LIV.--Luxury and too refined a policy in states are a sure presage of their fall, because all parties looking after their own interest turn away from the public good. (1665, No. 282.)
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