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The English writer, Carlyle, saw him as
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"Anxious, slight,
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"an ineffectual looking man in spectacles,
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"his eyes troubled, careful,
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"with an upturned face.
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"Dimly trying to understand the uncertain future times,
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"but he spoke with an intense passion and conviction,
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"a belief in all that he said."
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Mirabeau, who died of syphilis,
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one of the king's main advisors, said of him,
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"That man will go far,
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"because he believes every single thing that he says."