Qing Government Title
Eu purchased an official title from the Qing Dynasty government in 1903. He sold it back in 1906.
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Famous quotes containing the words qing, government and/or title:
“There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.”
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“Whenever the society is dissolved, it is certain the government of that society cannot remain ... that being as impossible, as for the frame of a house to subsist when the materials of it are scattered and dissipated by a whirlwind, or jumbled into a confused heap by an earthquake.”
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“It was his title that killed me. I had never spoken to a lord before. Oh, me! what a fool, what a beast I have been!”
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