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“Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, …” — Robert Southey

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
Robert Southey
Robert Southey Poet • English
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