The Happy Few

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Stendhal had the delightful habit of ending his books with the closing dedication, in English, “TO THE HAPPY FEW.”  The phrase is thought to be a borrowing from Henry V (“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers . . . ”) or perhaps from Goldsmith’s

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