“There is an intelligent man, who never questions his ideas," said Dorsenne to himself, when the Marquis had left him. "He is like the Socialists. What vigor of mind in that old wornout machine!”

—  Paul Bourget

Source: Cosmopolis (1892), Ch. 2 "The Beginning of a Drama"

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