European Men

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    Assassination is the perquisite of princes.
    —19th-century European court cliché.

    There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten—before the end is told—even if there happens to be any end to it.
    Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)