If a ruler hearken to lies, delight in flatteries or calumnies, or any lying words or deceitful and wicked practices, all his servants are wicked; partly because he chooseth only such for his service; and partly because they are either corrupted by his example, or engaged by their place and interest to please him, and comply with his base lusts.
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Proverbs 29:12
12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.