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It is not for us that we exhort you to learn, but for yourself, because ignorance is an inability, a real disaster, because social positions and protection are no longer there as before, there is a ground for malice and even hatred.

— Leopold I of Belgium

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My heart knows of no other ambition than that of seeing you happy.

You are as good a politician as you are a prelate.

I am saddened by the case of Constantinople, this journey was so well served to you, and you have spoiled it with a childishness.

Belgium is a boiler that needs valves.

He is as uncontrollable and crabby as one can imagine. Not to be understood, because neither his mother nor his father is like that.

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