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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| 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). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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