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There was no passion, bold or mean, no jealousy, no intrigues, vegetating ever so rankly or rifely in the oldest and largest court of Europe, which did not flourish in that of Don Carlos.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various