• Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

  Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
  German statesman 1767-1835
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1. transgressions
2. prevent
3. actions
4. freedom
5. ignoble
6. their

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Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. by : Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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