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I am the instrument of providence, she will use me as long as I accomplish her designs, then she will break me like a glass.
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As quoted in The Linguist and the Emperor : Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone (2004) by Daniel Meyerson

 

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