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More from Guy de Maupassant

  1. We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs ... of our barbarous ancestors.

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  2. Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

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  3. That was perhaps the only woman I have ever loved - no - that I ever should have loved. Ah, well! who can tell? Circumstances rule one. And then - and then - a…

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