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Those who make revolutions halfway have done nothing but dig their own graves.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

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Report on Incarcerated Persons. Presented on behalf of the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security to the National Convention at the session of 8 Ventôse, Year II (26 February 1794). | Source: Complete Works of Saint-Just, vol 2. Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquell, 1908. 238.

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