Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. ✨ Thomas H…

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Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley, p.110, Library of Alexandria
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