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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22664/">Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/4758/">Martineau, Harriet</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/law_and_lawyers/">law and lawyers</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>