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Waterloo
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The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty.
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― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
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Faced with this endless British troublemaking, Napoleon was, in Bonapartist French eyes, like a kung fu master, meditating peacefully on his prayer mat about progress and democracy while a gang of irritating English boys threw acorns at him, finally forcing him to get up and give them a slap.
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― How the French Won Waterloo: Or Think They Did
― How the French Won Waterloo: Or Think They Did
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