Writer in Bastille. Voltaire.

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George Bernard Show. Silence in restaurant.

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A capacious vessel. Sir Francis Drake.

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Love attack in the dark of the night. Giacomo Casanova.

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Nude diplomacy. Winston Churchill.

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An old fraud. James Rothschild.

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Polykleitos and critics.

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Dirty scums. D’Avejan.

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Sun for Diogenes and half of the world for Alexander the Great’s

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Devilish grooves. Moresius.

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