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In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.58,'Of  Vicissitude of  Things'.

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