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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: and leave the fellahs just enough to live on. That's a system that
does away with stamped papers and bureaucracy, the curse of France,
hein?"
"By virtue of what right?" said Leger.
"Right? why it is a land of despotism. They haven't any rights. Don't
you know the fine definition Montesquieu gives of despotism. 'Like the
savage, it cuts down the tree to gather the fruits.' They don't tax,
they take everything."
"And that's what our rulers are trying to bring us to. 'Tax vobiscum,'
--no, thank you!" said Mistigris.
"But that is what we ARE coming to," said the count. "Therefore, those
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