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“Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Character of Napoleon.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0e00bc10a757001445c721fb8be9c4833afeaae9fffa2442077801959b696204
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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