"She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?"
"At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight."
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Source: La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma). Book by Stendhal (Chapter 16), 1839.
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