"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."
-William Ralph Inge
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"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.“
-William Ralph Inge
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"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."
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"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."
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