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Than Quotes by Donna Leon
- Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.
- Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and…
- Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its…
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