Quotes with exalt

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• Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.

  Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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• Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

  Amos Bronson Alcott
  American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• civilization
• insensible
• operation
• degrades
• breathe
• steady

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