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Card #c32IR // #c32Verbatim excerpt
You must be some almighty class of scoundrel if Napoleon describes you as “a pile of shit in silk stockings.” Can you imagine the number of people who must have crossed Bonaparte?

— Source: The History of Money (David McWilliams)

[Use when]

Use when you need a brutal historical insult that doubles as status economics.

[Why it matters]

Character assassination from the top of the power stack is still a pricing of reputation in vulgar units.

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