A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man…

George Bernard Shaw
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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. ✨ John Bull's Other Island. Book by George Bernard Shaw (Preface), November 1, 1904.
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