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    “Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.”
    —Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham (1778–1868)

    “With the noise of the mourning of the Swattish nation!
    Fallen is at length
    Its tower of strength;
    Its sun is dimmed ere it had nooned;
    Dead lies the great Ahkoond,
    The great Ahkoond of Swat
    Is not!”
    —George Thomas Lanigan (1845–1886)