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Rights, Representation, and Reform - Nonsense upon Stilts and Other Writings on the French Revolution

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379	4	Replace existing note with:	See Molière, Le malade imaginaire (first performed in 1673), ‘Troisième intermède’: ‘Mihi a docto Doctore Domandatur causam et rationem quare Opium facit dormire: A quoi respondeo, Quia est in eo Virtus dormitiva’, i.e. ‘I am asked by the learned Doctor the cause and reason why opium makes people sleepy: to which I reply, because there is a soporific quality in it.’

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