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At twenty I tried to understand the Apocalypse; now I am sure that I never shall understand it.
— from The Revolutionary Movement of 1848-9 in Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany With Some Examination of the Previous Thirty-three Years by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice
Some late regulations of the British Room have given offence; the committee of which, in derision, have been named “the Holy Alliance,” and have had several anonymous letters addressed to them, upon their aristocratical notions in a foreign country.
— from A Five Years' Residence in Buenos Ayres, During the years 1820 to 1825 Containing Remarks on the Country and Inhabitants; and a Visit to Colonia Del Sacramento by George Thomas Love
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