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NUMBER:62846
QUOTATION:The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
ATTRIBUTION:Giambattista Vico (1688–1744), Italian philosopher, historian. The New Science, bk. 1, para. 242 (1744, trans. 1984).
 
 
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