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Peace unfortunately hung upon the prudence of a band of statesmen in Paris, who have ever since, both in their own country and everywhere else, been a byword in history for blindness and folly.
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John Morley
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Morley critiques the ineffectiveness of statesmen in Paris during a critical historical moment.
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