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Prince Otto

CHAPTER X--GOTTHOLD'S REVISED OPINION; AND THE FALL COMPLETED
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She is a woman of affairs; you are--dear boy, you are yourself.

I bid you back to your amusements; like a smiling dominie, I give you holidays for life.

Yes,' he continued, 'there is a day appointed for all when they shall turn again upon their own philosophy.

I had grown to disbelieve impartially in all; and if in the atlas of the sciences there were two charts I disbelieved in more than all the rest, they were politics and morals.

I had a sneaking kindness for your vices; as they were negative, they flattered my philosophy; and I called them almost virtues.


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