/ · 1894 Brewer’s · D · Divide and Govern
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Divide a nation into parties, or set your enemies at loggerheads, and you can have your own way. A maxim of Machiavelli, a noted political writer of Florence (1469–1527).
“Every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.”—Matthew xii. 25.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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