Marie Sevigne
Marie Sevigne
bring cannot guess private till
. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.
battalions fortune side
Fortune is always on the side of the big battalions
civility die man seldom wishes
. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.
astonish common desire seems singular source ways
The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.
dangerous
There is no person who is not dangerous for someone