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It seems most people have the sense to make laws, but not all are just enough to make good ones
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- Voltaire French writer and public activist (1694 to 1778)
It seems to me that most men have received from nature enough common sense to make laws, but that everyone is not just enough to make good laws.
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↗Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (English selection, H. I. Woolf translation, 1924)gutenberg.org
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