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Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change, are virtues made or crimes.

Daniel Defoe

1703

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Custom and convention Moral relativism Moral theory Morality

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1703

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Daniel Defoe

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Defoe, Daniel. A Hymn to the Pillory. London: 1703, I. 29.

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