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"There is more poverty in the human heart than misery in life."
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Émile de GirardinServility is to devotion what hypocrisy is to virtue. — Émile de Girardin
"Servility is to devotion what hypocrisy is to virtue."
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Émile de Girardin
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Émile de Girardin was a French journalist, publisher and politician. He was the most successful and flamboyant French journalist of the era, presenting himself as a promoter of mass education through mass journalism. His magazines reached over a hundred thousand subscribers, and his inexpensive daily newspaper La Presse undersold the competition by half, thanks to its cheaper production and heavie
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