• Thus every Part was full of Vice, Yet the whole Mass a Paradise; Flatter'd in Peace, and fear'd in Wars, They were th' Esteem of Foreigners, And lavish of their Wealth and Lives, The Balance of all other Hives.

  Source: The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 155, p. 9

  Bernard Mandeville
  British writer and artist 1670-1733
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. foreigners
2. flatter
3. balance
4. lavish
5. wealth
6. lives

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Thus every Part was full of Vice, Yet the whole Mass a Paradise; Flatter'd in Peace, and fear'd in Wars, They were th' Esteem of Foreigners, And lavish of their Wealth and Lives, The Balance of all other Hives. by : Bernard Mandeville

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