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No human being, whose life has been the subject of a biographer, has been so differently estimated, both in the popular mind and in elaborate memoirs. One historian lavishly praises him. Another indiscriminately condemns him; and we are called upon to form our opinion of his life and character from their writings.
J. Pierpont Morgan,
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on Napoleon, 1854