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And where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine

-Thomas Hobbes

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And Where Men Build On False Grounds,

Thomas Hobbes

And where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine

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Prophet may you be! if i be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!

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