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“[I]f you happen to have any money, lock it up quickly; if you happen to have any jewels, hide them directly; if you happen to have any debtors, make them pay you, or any creditors, don’t pay them.”
― Twenty Years After
― Twenty Years After
“[L]earn how to distinguish the king from royalty; the king is but a man; royalty is the gift of God. Whenever you hesitate as to whom you ought to serve, abandon the exterior, the material for the invisible principle, for the invisible principle is everything.”
― Twenty Years After
― Twenty Years After
“Now an enemy is never so near and consequently so threatening, as when he has completely disappeared.”
― Twenty Years After
― Twenty Years After
“Political judgments are generally vain formalities, for the same passions which give rise to the accusation ordain the condemnation. Such is the atrocious logic of revolutions.”
― Twenty Years After
― Twenty Years After
“It is a bad year for kings,” said Gondy, shaking his head; “look at England, madame.”
“Yes; but fortunately we have no Oliver Cromwell in France,” replied the Queen.
“Who knows?” said Gondy; “such men are like thunderbolts—one recognized them only when they have struck.”
― Twenty Years After
“Yes; but fortunately we have no Oliver Cromwell in France,” replied the Queen.
“Who knows?” said Gondy; “such men are like thunderbolts—one recognized them only when they have struck.”
― Twenty Years After
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