Vulgar words in The Modern Regime, Volume 1 (Page 1)
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He admits to Massena that "that little bastard of a general frightened him."
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In reply to the Bishop of Ghent, who, in the most respectful manner, excuses himself for not taking a second oath that is against his conscience, he rudely turns his back, and says, "Very well, sir, your conscience is a blockhead!
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"Fuck, where were you then?"
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in "Madame de Rémusat," I., 108, one of his confessions to Talleyrand: he crudely points out in himself the distance between natural instinct and studied courage.--Here and elsewhere, we obtain a glimpse of the actor and even of the Italian buffoon; M. de Pradt called him "Jupiter Scapin."
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This view, at once leveling and authoritative, tending to exaggerate the attributes of the State and the supreme power of the prince,[2333] was nevertheless inclined * to put natural right in the place of positive law,[2334] * to preferring equity and logic to antiquity and to custom, * to reinstate the dignity of man among the qualities of mankind, * to enhance the condition of the slave, of the provincial, of the debtor, of the bastard, of woman, of the child, and * to recover for the human community all its inferior members, foreign or degraded, which the ancient constitution of the family and of the city had excluded from it.
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On primary school-teachers, Hérault: "Most are blockheads and vagabonds."
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--Pas-de-Calais:" Most are blockheads or ignoramuses."]
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"Men, under his government, who had hitherto been considered incapable are made useful; men hitherto considered distinguished found themselves mixed in with the crowd; men hitherto regarded as the pillars of the State found themselves useless ... An ass or a knave need never be ambitious to approach Bonaparte, they will make nothing out of him."]