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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it. ✨ History of the Peloponnesian War. Book by Thucydides, Book VIII, 8.89, 431–404 BC.
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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it. ✨ History of the Peloponnesian War. Book by Thucydides, Book VIII, 8.89, 431–404 BC.

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