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The Portuguese conquest, like the conquests of the Dutch and the British that followed, reflects both the dynamism and imprudence to which all empires are susceptible. It is a lesson the United States would do well to learn.
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
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