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Guy de Maupassant, Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant Quotes: Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw
         

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw


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