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“He that builds a city, and does not intend it should increase, commits as great an absurdity, as if he should desire his child might ever continue under the same weakness in which he is born. If it do not grow, it must pine and perish; for in this world nothing is permanent; that which does not grow better will grow worse.”

Algernon Sidney, Discourses Concerning Government
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Discourses Concerning Government (Liberty Fund Studies in Political Theory) Discourses Concerning Government by Algernon Sidney
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