An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood…

George Bernard Shaw
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. ✨ George Bernard Shaw (2007). Back to Methuselah, p.176, 1st World Publishing
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