"She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?"
"Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself."
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Source: Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black). Book by Stendhal (Volume II, Chapter XXII), November 1830.
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