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George Gissing

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It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
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As quoted in Quote Junkie Funny Edition (2008) by the Hagopian Institute, p. 47

 
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