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Political liberty, the tranquility of a nation, nay, knowledge itself, are gifts on which destiny has laid a tax of blood!
Political liberty, the tranquility of a nation, nay, knowledge itself, are gifts on which destiny has laid a tax of blood!
The virtue of women is perhaps a question of temperament.
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
The winters are to fashionable women what a campaign once was to the soldiers of the Empire.
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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