“For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called "modern world" are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not interest them very much.”
Quote by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Book:The Story of Mankind
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The Story of Mankind
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