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There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

Thomas Paine
Supposing That, Islands, Absurd
Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.23, Cambridge University Press
There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.