Kyrgyzstan/history/independence

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“If you look at history you’ll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.”
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“The Indian’s intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.”
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