I c'est un crime de l'aimer,
On n'en doit justement blâmer
Que les beautés qui sont en elle;
La faute en est au dieux
Qui la firent si belle,
Et non pas à mes yeux.
Jean de Lingendes.
AS —— very disagreeable?" "Why, he was as disagreeable as the occasion would permit," Luttrell said.
Sydney Smith, Life and Letters.
BELIEVE that nothing in the newspapers is ever true," said Madame Phoebus.
"And that is why they are so popular," added Euphrosyne; "the taste of the age being so decidedly for fiction."
Lord Beaconsfield, Lothair.
