To rescind a recent vote is, no doubt, as Sir Robert Peel said, a step not wholly free from objection.
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge
This improved sentiment as regards veracity is, no doubt, partly due to the realisation of its importance and of the inconveniences which result from the breaches of it, especially in commercial affairs, by the members of a community at large; but it must also, to a great extent, have been produced by the definite teaching conveyed in books, and by moral and religious instructors.
— from Progressive Morality: An Essay in Ethics by Thomas Fowler
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