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

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I was never less alone than when by myself.[431:1]

Memoirs. Vol. i. p. 117.

Footnotes

[430:1] L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs (History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes).—Voltaire: L' Ingénu, chap. x.

[430:2] See Fielding, page [364].

[430:3] See Clarendon, page [255].

[430:4] On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons (It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions).—Voltaire: Letter to M. le Riche. 1770.

J'ai toujours vu Dieu du coté des gros bataillons (I have always noticed that God is on the side of the heaviest battalions).—De la Ferté to Anne of Austria.

[430:5] See Chapman, page [35].

[431:1] Never less alone than when alone.—Rogers: Human Life.