"Called to the throne by the voice..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me
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“You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead.”
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