What savage manners, what people! What senseless nights,
what uninteresting, uneventful days! The rage for card-play-
ing, the gluttony, the drunkenness, the continual talk al-
ways about the same thing. Useless pursuits and conversa-
tions always about the same things absorb the better part of
one’s time, the better part of one’s strength, and in the
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