Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Government…

Joseph Conrad
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Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. ✨ Joseph Conrad (2016). Under Western Eyes, p.25, Joseph Conrad
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