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Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of the Chevalier De Faublas, Vol. 1 of 4: Including a Variety of Anecdotes Relative to the Present King of Poland
It is more easy to imagine my ri iculous stupefaction than to describe it. T every step new objects claim my attention: I ad mire the richness of the fashions, the gran deur of the apparel, and the elegance of the manners of all around me. On a sudden I recollect that quarter which I had visited but last night, and my astonishment is in creased, for I could not comprehend how the same walls could inclose such different objects. Experience had not as yet taught me, that palaces every where conceal �ot. 'tages, that luxury produces misery, and that the extreme opulence of one person necessarily occasions the misery of manv.
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