Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2007). Epigram…

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2007). Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, p.144, Wordsworth Editions
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