• Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive To make a Great an Honest Hive. T'enjoy the World's Conveniences, Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease, Without great Vices, is a vain Eutopia seated in the Brain.

  Source: The Fable of the Bees The Moral, line 1, p. 23

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

1. conveniences
2. without
3. eutopia
4. seated
5. world
6. vices

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Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive To make a Great an Honest Hive. T'enjoy the World's Conveniences, Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease, Without great Vices, is a vain Eutopia seated in the Brain. by : Bernard Mandeville

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