comte
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Joined: 2/4/2009 From: Be'eri, Hadarom, Israel Status: offline
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The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.
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But when Territories are acquired in regions where there are differences in language, customs, and laws then great good fortune and much hard work are required to hold them. -Machiavelli, Il Principe, Book III-
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