I've been watching a lot of old black and white films recently. Most recently, The Third Man, with Orson Welles as Harry Lime, with the brilliant lines:
"You know what the fellow said - in Italy, for thiry years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo de Vinci and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce?
The Cuckoo Clock!"
But he forgot.
Chocolate.
and a murky reputation for banking the profits of said warface, terror, murder and bloodshed.
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