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• The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.

  Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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• disesteem
• moralists
• elucidate
• sanctions
• secondary

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