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undeniable nevertheless in attempting to explain
On the other hand the conception of fire as an emanation of the sun, or at all events as linked to it by a bond of physical sympathy, is far less simple and obvious; and though the use of fire as a charm to produce sunshine appears to be undeniable, nevertheless in attempting to explain popular customs we should never have recourse to a more recondite idea when a simpler one lies to hand and is supported by the explicit testimony of the people themselves.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

under Napoleon III and the executive
That wretched little Thiers, with his perverse bourgeois soul, had worn his teeth out with nibbling at every kind of Government—royalty under Louis Philippe, Empire under Napoleon III., and the executive power of the French Republic.
— from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

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