Note 9 — Chapter VII · --TRUTH.
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It is an unlucky moment to remember these sparkles of solitary virtue in the face of the honors lately paid in England to the Emperor Louis Napoleon. I am sure that no Englishman whom I had the happiness to know, consented, when the aristocracy and the commons of London cringed like a Neapolitan rabble, before a successful thief. But--how to resist one step, though odious, in a linked series of state necessities?--Governments must always learn too late, that the use of dishonest agents is as ruinous for nations as for single men.