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I have no confidence in the system of isolement [isolation]. It does not answer in social life for individuals, nor in politics for nations. Man is a social animal.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, letter to Thomas Raikes (March 1, 1841); in Harriet Raikes, ed., Private Correspondence of Thomas Raikes (1861), p. 262–63. | ||