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"To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame"

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About Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny was a French poet, playwright, and novelist.

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