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At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned. - [Revolution] Audacity, more audacity, always audacity. [Fr., De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace.] - during the French Revolution [Audacity] I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner. - [Scaffold] Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould. - [Vanity] Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men. - [Government] The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents. - [Character] They are sending me to the scaffold. Well, my friends, we must go to it gayly. - [Scaffold] We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring. - [Daring] When they go smiling to the scaffold, it is time to break in pieces the sickle of death. - [Scaffold]
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