"There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent."

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There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

— Hector Hugh Munro