We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Helen Simonson
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing...
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing...
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing...
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing...
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"All of us are small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors." The world is a far more peaceful place because of the ability to learn from history. We are all too quick to make the mistakes of our ancestors, but we are also able to learn from them.

Source: Major Pettigrews Last Stand

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