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

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Letter to Count d'Argental, Nov. 28, 1765.

It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.[801:4]

Letter to M. le Riche, Feb. 6, 1770.

Love truth, but pardon error.

Discours sur l'Homme. Discours 3.

Footnotes

[800:6] See Tillotson, page [266].

[800:7] Voltaire writes to his niece Dennis, July 24, 1752, "Voilà le roi qui m'envoie son linge à blanchir."

[800:8] See Young, page [310].

[801:1] See Gibbon, page [430].