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by watwut 1203 days ago
Nothing like a reality to destroy popular quote.
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proser 1203 days ago
I don't think the radically different contexts of a burgeoning nation in the 18th century and a highly developed nation in the 21st "destroys" this quote.
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watwut 1203 days ago
The experience of "actually in times of war people need and use art" does it.

Quote was made by diplomat and revolutionary. It expresses his personal values and needs rather then universal needs in bad times.

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