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It is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Source: Remark to De Pradt after retreat from Moscow, 1812.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte, (Aug 15 1769-1821), French soldier, emperor; He established the Napoleonic Code, 1804-10 as the French legal system; remembered for his defeat at Waterloo, 1815.