Life
Bodin was successively a monk, academic, professional lawyer and political adviser. An excursion as a politician having proved a failure, he lived out his life as a provincial magistrate.
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Famous quotes containing the word life:
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—For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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