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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Act I

 

Anton Chekhov

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"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."

 

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