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

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Footnotes

[801:5] Fournier: L'Esprit dans l'Histoire, p. 191.

[801:6] Voltaire writes to Madame du Deffand, January, 1764, that one of her bon-mots is quoted in the notes of "La Pucelle," canto 1: "Il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte."

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JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU.  1712-1778.

Days of absence, sad and dreary,

Clothed in sorrow's dark array,—

Days of absence, I am weary:

She I love is far away.