Vaugelas had been dead for a generation and the dictionary’s completion was almost coming into view when the Academy was struck by the idea of creating order in the spelling, which had hitherto been a happy anarchy. Unfortunately for
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“Where opulence is most opulent, there—in this land of contradictions—misery is most miserable;”
― Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
― Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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