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Saturday, 29 December 2007

Voters concerns

But it is a very safe rule in politics to assume that no population is ever disturbed by wholly imaginary grievances. In such cases, unquestionably, where there is smoke there is fire. Man is by far too lazy an animal to trouble himself much with agitation about purely unreal & non-existing wrongs


Justin McCarthy: A History of Our Time 1880
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