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You've read my letter of 18 Ventôse?
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I was vice-president of the Pike Section.
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I represented it at the Convention.
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I penned a eulogy to Marat...
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You speak and write a good deal.
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You're a man of letters, you say.
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You know this book?
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"The libertine's frenzy only increased...
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"He opened a closet
containing several whips,
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"withdrew one with a steel tip,
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"which made me tremble..."
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No.
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The printer was judged.
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He was guillotined.
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Did you know?
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It's a defense of crime,
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the most bestial debauchery, and atheism.
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Who is the guiltier,
the printer or the author?
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Rumor has it that you are the author.
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Come now, citizen,
I appeal to your good sense.
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Is the same person likely to extol
virtue among its great men
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and vice in a novel?
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No one can be divided in such a way
without going mad.
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Take him away.