Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pr… - Robert Payne

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Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their deathbeds.

Robert Payne

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Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (4 December 1911 – 3 March 1983) was a novelist, historian, poet, and biographer. Born in Cornwall, the son of an English naval architect, and with a French mother. Payne had more than 110 books published, novels, histories and biographies.

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A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

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