"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!“


-Graham Greene

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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

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