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Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 27, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories knowledgeTags Axel Oxenstierna

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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