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sorry to all my currently reading books .... im 6 months into a job search and getting desperate sooooo here we go

"Those who had conquered Europe have fallen prone on the earth, with nothing left to say nor to do, feeling the present shadow of a terrible presence...Waterloo is the hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was necessary to the advent of the great century...In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by."

"Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. Why? Because of Wellington? ... No. Because of God. Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the nineteenth century. Another series of facts was in preparation, in which there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had declared itself long before.
It was time that this vast man should fall."