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The [French] Revolution began at the top—in the world of fashion, birth, and intellect — and propagated itself downwards.
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France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.
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Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.
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The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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September 16, 1823
Died:
November 8, 1893
(aged 70)
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