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Thomas Hobbes Quotes: The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.
         

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.


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