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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Approximate author period: c. 1922 AD · modern
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- Carl Sandburg
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- Approximate author period: c. 1922 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1878 to 1967; Wikidata Q193608, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193608 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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