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NUMBER:9061
QUOTATION:But their determination to banish fools foundered
ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
ATTRIBUTION:Basil Bunting (1900–1985), British poet. The Spoils.

On the decline of government under the Turkish Seljuk dynasty.
 
 
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