"The Commonwealth makes the world safe for..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela
The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity
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“Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.”
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“It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?”
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