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title: "2 Spectacle Burning Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“The king and queen were usually present, and the king or the dauphin would light a pyre. The cats were then tumbled into the flames from an overhead basket, and the crowd reveled in their cries. “Certainly this is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-wade/the-king-and-queen-were-usually-present-and-the-king-or-the-dauphin/)

[Nicholas Wade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-wade/)

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> [“Dear me, what would this barren vocabulary get out of the mightiest spectacle?—the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? Why, it would merely say, 'Town burned down; no insurance; boy brast a window, fireman brake his neck!' Why,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/dear-me-what-would-this-barren-vocabulary-get-out-of-the-mightiest/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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