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L'esprit et le ge¤  nie perdent vingt-cinq pour cent de leur valeur, en de¤ b arquant en Angleterre. The mind and genius lose twenty-five percent of their value on entry into England.

-Stendhal pseudonym of  Henri Beyle
  Le Rouge et le noir, bk.2, ch.7.

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