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Balzac: Tough to get BIGFED in Second Empire France

If you have no patronage you will rot in a provincial court....
Bonkers double fault water buffalo
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high-end hunting ground location
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oh man this was an UNDERRATED POST on my part
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180 home
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Holy shit not flame: https://books.google.com/books?id=yQ...
Fear-inspiring confused mother
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Lulz, I've been reading Balzac myself the last few weeks. I ...
Concupiscible Gold Fat Ankles Plaza
  04/18/15
jesus thats a good paragraph
Exhilarant Quadroon Karate
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twisted house-broken base
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Holy shit
aqua swashbuckling puppy
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Bull headed frisky business firm boltzmann
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*hair blows back*
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low-t primrose church building wrinkle
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twisted house-broken base
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bossy ticket booth
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Aromatic resort
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XO Balzac
Know-it-all area masturbator
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Que le bon Dieu me benisse
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Date: August 26th, 2014 8:38 PM
Author: Bonkers double fault water buffalo

If you have no patronage you will rot in a provincial court. At thirty you will be a magistrate on 1,200 francs a year...at forty you will marry some miller's daughter with about 6,000 livres in rent. Thank you. If you have a patron you will become a procureur du roi at thirty, with 1,000 écus salary and you will marry the mayor's daughter. If you make one or two political gestures...you might be a procureur général at forty, and a deputy.

But I should inform you that there are only twenty procureurs généraux in France and 20,000 competitors for the post.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2657578&forum_id=2#26212924)



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Date: August 26th, 2014 8:39 PM
Author: high-end hunting ground location

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Date: April 18th, 2015 10:32 PM
Author: Bonkers double fault water buffalo

oh man this was an UNDERRATED POST on my part

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2657578&forum_id=2#27715588)



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Date: April 18th, 2015 10:37 PM
Author: 180 home



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Date: April 18th, 2015 10:39 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring confused mother

Holy shit not flame:

https://books.google.com/books?id=yQrXaL4ojpAC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=If+you+have+no+patronage+you+will+rot+in+a+provincial+court.&source=bl&ots=g_2a9IWlXa&sig=PzyDmyLSD_KwBRwxx8ALy2-fW54&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QxUzVdPdGPiKsQTu4YGAAg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=If%20you%20have%20no%20patronage%20you%20will%20rot%20in%20a%20provincial%20court.&f=false

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Date: April 18th, 2015 10:56 PM
Author: Concupiscible Gold Fat Ankles Plaza

Lulz, I've been reading Balzac myself the last few weeks. I actually just finished Father Goriot today. It reminded me of Crime and Punishment and Great Expectations.

Speaking to a law student:

"And, then, what will you do? Shall you begin to work? Work, or what you understand by work at this moment, means, for a man of Poiret’s calibre, an old age in Mamma Vauquer’s lodging-house. There are fifty thousand young men in your position at this moment, all bent as you are on solving one and the same problem — how to acquire a fortune rapidly. You are but a unit in that aggregate. You can guess, therefore, what efforts you must make, how desperate the struggle is. There are not fifty thousand good positions for you; you must fight and devour one another like spiders in a pot. Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague. Honesty is nothing to the purpose. Men bow before the power of genius; they hate it, and try to slander it, because genius does not divide the spoil; but if genius persists, they bow before it. To sum it all up in a phrase, if they fail to smother genius in the mud, they fall on their knees and worship it. Corruption is a great power in the world, and talent is scarce. So corruption is the weapon of superfluous mediocrity; you will be made to feel the point of it everywhere."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2657578&forum_id=2#27715739)



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Date: November 29th, 2017 9:37 PM
Author: Exhilarant Quadroon Karate

jesus thats a good paragraph

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Date: November 29th, 2017 9:39 PM
Author: twisted house-broken base



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Date: November 29th, 2017 9:41 PM
Author: aqua swashbuckling puppy

Holy shit

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Date: June 8th, 2019 2:52 PM
Author: Bull headed frisky business firm boltzmann



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Date: June 8th, 2019 3:02 PM
Author: Olive Cocky Yarmulke

*hair blows back*

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Date: November 27th, 2017 5:56 PM
Author: low-t primrose church building wrinkle



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Date: November 27th, 2017 5:57 PM
Author: twisted house-broken base



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Date: November 28th, 2017 11:43 PM
Author: bossy ticket booth



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Date: November 29th, 2017 9:41 PM
Author: Aromatic resort



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Date: November 29th, 2017 9:41 PM
Author: Know-it-all area masturbator

XO Balzac

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Date: November 29th, 2017 9:42 PM
Author: red fortuitous meteor

Que le bon Dieu me benisse

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Date: June 8th, 2019 2:48 PM
Author: bistre rigpig



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Date: May 1st, 2022 8:41 PM
Author: red fortuitous meteor



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