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“A nation rushing hastily to and fro, busily employed in idleness.”
—Phaedrus (c. 1st century A.D.)
“The French courage proceeds from vanitythe German from phlegmthe Turkish from fanaticism & opiumthe Spanish from pridethe English from coolnessthe Dutch from obstinacythe Russian from insensibilitybut the Italian from anger.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
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