Monday, December 14, 2015

So..............................


"They arrived at Buenos Ayres.  Cunegonde, Captain Candide and the old woman went to call on the governor, Don Fernando d'Ibaraa y Figueora y Mascarenes y Lampourdos y Souza.  This gentleman had the pride befitting a man who owned so many names.  He talked to men with a most noble disdain, turning his nose up so far, raising his voice so pitilessly, assuming so imposing a tone, affecting so lofty a carriage, that all who addressed him were tempted to give him a thrashing."

-Voltaire,  Candide

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