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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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911 |
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AUTHOR:
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) |
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QUOTATION:
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I have no confidence in the system of isolement [isolation]. It does not answer in social life for individuals, nor in politics for nations. Man is a social animal. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF WILLINGTON, letter to Thomas Raikes, March 1, 1841.—Private Correspondence of Thomas Raikes, ed. Harriet Raikes, pp. 262–63 (1861). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Isolationism |
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