The Moral Maxims and Reflections of the Duke De La Rochefoucauld: With an Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

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It was the age when civilisation might seem to have attained the highest level compatible with the negation of freedom, when the French language had been just brought to its perfection as a vehicle of refined thought and delicate badinage.

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