quired a new
devotion. Hitherto I have been contented with being a plain honest
man; but I must do something more; and I only wait for your example
to become a devotee. You live in a country where people have
wonderful advantages of saving their souls, there vice is almost as
opposite to the mode as to virtue; sinning passes for ill-breeding,
and shocks decency and good manners, as much as religion, Formerly
it was enough to be wicked; now one must be a scoundrel withal, to
be damned in France. They who have not regard enough for another
life, are led to salvation by the consideration and duties of this."
--"But there is enough upon a subject in which the conversion of the
Count de Grammont has engaged me: I believe it to be sincere and
honest. It well becomes a man who is not young, to forget he has
been so."--Life of St. Evremond, by Des Marzeaux, p. 136; and St.
Evremond's Works, vol. ii. p. 431.]

PG EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:

All day poring over his books, and went to bed soon
Ambition to pass for a wit, only established her tiresome
An affectation of purity of manners
As all fools are who have good memories
Better memory for injuries than for benefits
Better to know nothing at all, than to know too much
Better to partake with another than to have nothing at all
Busy without consequence
By a strange perversion of language, styled, all men of honour
Despising everything which was not like themselves
Devote himself to his studies, than to the duties of matrimony
Duke would see things if he could
Embellish the truth, in order to enhance the wonder
Entreating pardon, and at the same time justifying her conduct
Envy each other those indulgences which themselves refuse
Every thing that is necessary is honourable in politics
Four dozen of patches, at least, and ten ringlets of hair
Good attendants, but understood cheating still better
Great earnestness passed for business
Grew so fat and plump that it was a blessing to see her
Hardly possible for a woman to have less wit, or more beauty
He had no sentiments but such as others inspired him with
He talked eternally, without saying anything
He as little feared the Marquis as he loved him
His mistress given him by his priests for penance
How I must hate you, if I did not love you to distraction
Impenetrable stupidity (passed) for secrecy
Imp