West Prussia - Office Holders

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“Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”
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“Their holders have always seemed to me like a woman who should undertake at a state fair to run a sewing machine, under pretense of advertising it, while she had never spent an hour in learning its use.”
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