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    “The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever,
    And famine grew, and locusts came;
    Great is the hand that holds dominion over
    Man by a scribbled name.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)