If lowborn men could stand up to those born to rule, religion, government, the whole world would fall to pieces...[Merlin replies]...So it would; so it will ... then the pieces will be put together again by such as destroyed it. (John Steinbeck)

If lowborn men could stand up to those born to rule, religion, government, the whole world would fall to pieces...[Merlin replies]...So it would; so it will ... then the pieces will be put together again by such as destroyed it.

John Steinbeck

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