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  1. James A. Michener _ Poland

    Jan had never seen a really sumptuous establishment like Lancut, but he had worked often at Castle Gorka and could see the vast difference between how a count lived, with his fifty horses and forty servants, and how his peasants lived, with meat once a year, a new suit of clothes once every ten years, little medicine and less education.
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  2. James A. Michener _ Poland

    {Very rich people} with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their protection; in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection.
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  3. James A. Michener _ Poland

    Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.
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  4. James A. Michener _ Poland

    a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
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