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Quotes from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte — Karl Marx

1818–1883 Germany

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This has been compared to Horace Walpole's statement: "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)

The Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent.

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)

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