"I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.“


-John le Carre

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I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

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