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Present-day society is saturated in the degeneracy of subjugation, which prevents women from fully participating in society as social equals.
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.
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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
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Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.