Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Quotes

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

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• If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

  

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
  • Nature
  • Pains
  • Corrupt