| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 62851 |
| QUOTATION: | Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Giambattista Vico (16881744), Italian philosopher, historian. The New Science, bk. 1, para. 144 (1744, trans. 1984). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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