Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Footnotes

[806:1] This saying, "Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vécu avec elle," is assigned to Constant by A. Hayward in his Introduction to the "Autobiography and Letters" of Mrs. Piozzi.

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JUNOT, DUC D'ABRANTES.  1771-1813.

I know nothing about it; I am my own ancestor.[806:2]

(When asked as to his ancestry.)