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

Into the silent land!

The Silent Land.

"It is more than a crime; it is a political fault,"[805:2]—words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.

Memoirs of Fouché.

Death is an eternal sleep.

Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794.

[805:2] Commonly quoted, "It is worse than a crime,—it is a blunder," and attributed to Talleyrand.