Proposed Action

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    It is true that men themselves made this world of nations ... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
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    The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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