in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
The Italians let the Borgias rule for three decades, they lived through war, fear, murder and massacre, but they had Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, people love each other and enjoy five hundred years of democracy and peace - but what have they? Only the chiming bird.
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