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Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you fall behind them and they drag you along with them oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

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Napoleon Bonaparte
Age: 52 †
Born: 1769
Born: January 1
Died: 1821
Died: January 1
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by the Grace of God and the Constitutions
Emperor of the French and King of Italy
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emperador dels francesos Napoleó I
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