Henry III of France/polish Reign 1573%e2%80%931574

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    Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don’t have things organized.
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    Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.
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    The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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    Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.
    Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

    Here reign the simplicity and purity of a primitive age, and a health and hope far remote from towns and cities.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)