The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling he kills exiles imprisons or so humiliates him that the other like a fool dies...

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling he kills exiles imprisons or so humiliates him that the other like a fool dies of grief.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling he kills exiles imprisons or so humiliates him that the other like a fool dies of grief. Stendhal

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling he kills exiles imprisons or so humiliates him that the other like a fool dies of grief.
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