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NUMBER:32781
QUOTATION:And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
ATTRIBUTION:Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), British author, poet. Dane-Geld, History of England (1911).
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