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The Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
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“Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."

[On Water]”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant

tags: duties, government, leadership, peace, responsibility, shipwreck, steering, stewardship, war

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“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments."

[On Water]”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant

tags: death-penalty, government, people, punishment, retribution, revolts, revolutions, uprising

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