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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: a better world.
" 'CHARLES EDWARD.'
"Assuredly (to avail ourselves yet further of Sainte-Beuve's
Babylonish dialect), this far outpasses the raillery of Sterne's
/Sentimental Journey/; it might be Scarron without his grossness. Nay,
I do not know but that Moliere in his lighter mood would not have said
of it, as of Cyrano de Bergerac's best--'This is mine.' Richelieu
himself was not more complete when he wrote to the princess waiting
for him in the Palais Royal--'Stay there, my queen, to charm the
scullion lads.' At the same time, Charles Edward's humor is less
biting. I am not sure that this kind of wit was known among the Greeks
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