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Guy de Maupassant reflects on the way that a statesman’s place in history has so often been defined not by deeds or character but by his one-liners.
Picture: By Guillaume-Alphonse Harang Cabasson (1814-1884), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.. Source.
Posted February 17 2021
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