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Corruption is a tree, whose branches are of an immeasurable length. They spread ev'rywhere. And the dew that drops from thence hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune (1613; published 1647), Act III, scene 3.

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