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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: though better placed than the rest of us to make himself a niche in
the Governmental Olympus, was turned out of doors one morning by a
concise little note, signed Joseph de Villele, dismissing him, as was
proper, to Rene, Atala, and other futilities.
I know that time and that tall posthumous daughter of ours whom we
call Posterity will some day do good justice and plead the right thing
in the right place. Towards the end of 2039, the world, if it deigns
to last till then, will know what Canalis, Joseph Bridau, Daniel
d'Arthez, Stidmann, and Leon de Lora were in 1839; whereas an
infinitely small number of persons will know that during the same
period Monsieur le Comte de l'Estorade was peer of France, and
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