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Experience Serves To Prove That The Worth And Strength Of A State Depend Far Less Upon The Form Of Its Institutions Than Upon The Character Of Its Men; For The Nation Is Only The Aggregate Of Individual Conditions, And Civilization Itself Is But A Question Of Personal, Improvement.
-Samuel Smiles
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Experience Serves To Prove That The Worth

Samuel Smiles
Experience Serves To Prove That The Worth And Strength Of A State Depend Far Less Upon The Form Of Its Institutions Than Upon The Character Of Its Men; For The Nation Is Only The Aggregate Of Individual Conditions, And Civilization Itself Is But A Question Of Personal, Improvement.
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