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FoUow him," he said, " and do everything he bids you

8. I am ready to speak, the more so as I am sure you will not

repeat what I tell you.

9. One must be very rich indeed thus to spend money by handfuls.

10. Besides his being too young, he is not so élever as you think.

11. The old warrior could notbear that France should hâve gained

battles in which he had not taken part.

12. You will only succeed at most in doing what you hâve already

done ail your life.

13. I hâve known people in whom virtue was so natural that it did

not even make itself felt.

14. Do you look upon a good action as a wonder, the telling of

which ought to astonish everybody ?

1 5- How painful work seems when one does not take any interest in it !

16. Of ail their qualifies, the one I value most is their modesty.

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