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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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209 |
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AUTHOR:
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Aristotle (384–322 B.C.) |
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QUOTATION:
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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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ARISTOTLE, Politics, book 1, chapter 2.—Aristotle’s Politics and Poetics, trans. Benjamin Jowett and Thomas Twining, p. 5 (1952). Jowett translated Politics. |
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SUBJECTS:
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Cities |
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