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As my father is a Christian preacher I feel I have a right to protest against his being placed on a clerical parity with bilkers of hack bills and crapulous associates of two-for-a-penny prostitutes.
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Badinguet and his gang of two-for-a-penny generals to settle accounts with their beastly Prussians as best they may! "
The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871
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