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but, at the same time I perceived all the danger to which I was exposing myself.

I foresaw that I should have to fight single-handed against abuses of every sort, against the efforts of such as gain by those abuses, against the host of the prejudiced who oppose every reform, and who, in the hands of interested persons, are so powerful a means of perpetuating disorder.

I shall be feared, shall be even hated by the greater part of the court, by all that solicit favors.

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