To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present to have done great things together to wish to do greater these are the essential conditions which make up a people. (Ernest Renan)

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present to have done great things together to wish to do greater these are the essential conditions which make up a people.

Ernest Renan

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