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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

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My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-bar...more

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How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!

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Go," said the count deliberately, "go, dear friend, but promise me, if you meet with any obstacle to remember that I have some power in this world; th...more

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You see that God deems it right to take from me any claim to merit for what you call my devotion to you. I have promised to remain forever with you, a...more

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As it was a time of war between the Catholics and the Huguenots, and as he saw the Catholics exterminate the Huguenots and the Huguenots exterminate t...more