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There are some skins as hard as tortoise shell
against which scorn has no power.
Many friends, many gloves. Those who loved me
have been despised persons; worthy of being despised,
I might even say, if I were determined to
flatter the respectable.
For Girardin to speak Latin! Pecudesque locutae
It was typical of a Society without faith to send
Robert Houdin to the Arabs to convert them from
belief in miracles.
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