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.
-- Harriet Martineau
   
Harriet Martineau   Name:
Harriet Martineau
Type:
Writer
Nationality:
English
Birth:
June 12, 1802
Death:
June 27, 1876
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