The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

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The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

David Lloyd George

Observer · 1933

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Decline of civilization The world Decline

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1933

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David Lloyd George

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George, David Lloyd. The Observer. 8 Jan. 1933.

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