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Quotes and Images from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud
Goldsmith, Lewis
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Not suspected of any vices, but all his
virtues are negative
Not only portable guillotines, but
portable Jacobin clubs
Nothing was decided, though nothing was
refused
Now that she is old (as is generally
the case), turned devotee
One of the negative accomplices of the
criminal
Opinion almost constitutes half the
strength of armies
Prelate on whom Bonaparte intends to
confer the Roman tiara
Prepared to become your victim, but not
your accomplice
Presumptuous charlatan
Pretensions or passions of upstart
vanity
Pride of an insupportable and
outrageous ambition
Procure him after a useless life, a
glorious death
Promises of impostors or fools to
delude the ignorant
Prudence without weakness, and with
firmness without obstinacy
Saints supplied her with a finger, a
toe, or some other parts
Salaries as the men, under the name of
washerwomen
Satisfying himself with keeping three
mistresses only
Should our system of cringing continue
progressively
Sold cats' meat and tripe in the
streets of Rome
Step is but short from superstition to
infidelity
Sufferings of individuals, he said, are
nothing
Suspicion and tyranny are inseparable
companions
Suspicion is evidence
They will create some quarrel to
destroy you
They ought to be just before they are
generous
"This is the age of upstarts," said
Talleyrand
Thought at least extraordinary, even by
our friends
Thought himself eloquent when only
insolent or impertinent
Two hundred and twenty thousand
prostitute licenses
Under the notion of being frank, are
rude
United States will be exposed to
Napoleon's outrages
Usurped the easy direction of ignorance
Vices or virtues of all civilized
nations are relatively the same
Want is the parent of industry
We are tired of everything, even of our
existence
Were my generals as great fools as some
of my Ministers
Which crime in power has interest to
render impenetrable
Who complains is shot as a conspirator
With us, unfortunately, suspicion is
the same as conviction
Would cease to rule the day he became
just
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