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George Eliot Quotes: There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.
         

There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.


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