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Partir, c'est mourir un peu.
(To leave is to die a little.)
Historically speaking, the most obvious and most decisive distinction between the American and the French Revolutions was that the ...
What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all ...
Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of ...
Finally, within a huge and sombre mass of things,
A blackened people, living and dying in silence.
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Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crown ...
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents ... and only one for birthday presents, you kn ...
There is a certain jargon, which, in French, I should call un Persiflage d'Affaires, that a foreign Minister ought to be perfectly ...
Liberalism is too often misconceived as a new set of dogmas taught by a newer and better set of priests called "liberals." Liberal ...
Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.
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