Chamberlain Spoke

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    The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
    —Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914)

    Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.
    Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)