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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Age: 61 †
Born: 1770
Born: August 27
Died: 1831
Died: November 14
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