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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
Cicero
Ambitious
Appears
Fools
Its
Nation
Survive
Traitor
Treason
Wisdom
Within
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