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Mr. Feathercock was returning from a visit to the English consul who had said to him coldly: "All that I can tell you is that you have made an ass of yourself or, as a Frenchman would say, played the donkey to hear yourself bray.
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Yes, I could make up my mind to it; but--I know myself--I should be ass enough to go back for her.
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A learned man who had composed thirteen volumes on the properties of the griffin, and was besides the chief theurgite, hastened away to accuse Zadig before one of the principal magi, named Yebor, the greatest blockhead and therefore the greatest fanatic among the Chaldeans.
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LUCIUS APULEIUS _The Adventure of the Three Robbers_ The great satire of Lucius Apuleius, the work through which his name lives after the lapse of nearly eighteen centuries, is "The Golden Ass," a romance from which the following passage has been selected and translated for these Mystery Stories.
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The purpose of "The Golden Ass" was to satirize false priests and other contemporary frauds.