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Title: Quotes and Images From The Court of St. Cloud
Author: Lewis Goldsmith
Edited and Arranged by David Widger
Release Date: September 10, 2004 [EBook #7559]
Language: English
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QUOTES AND IMAGES: COURT OF ST. CLOUD
MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD
A Gentleman at Paris
A stranger to remorse and repentance,
as well as to honour
Accused of fanaticism, because she
refused to cohabit with him
All his creditors, denounced and
executed
All priests are to be proscribed as
criminals
As everywhere else, supported injustice
by violence
As confident and obstinate as ignorant
Bestowing on the Almighty the passions
of mortals
Bonaparte and his wife go now every
morning to hear Mass
Bonaparte dreads more the liberty of
the Press than all other
Bourrienne
Bow to their charlatanism as if it was
sublimity
Cannot be expressed, and if expressed,
would not be believed
Chevalier of the Guillotine: Toureaux
Complacency which may be felt, but
ought never to be published
Country where power forces the law to
lie dormant
Distinguished for their piety or
rewarded for their flattery
Easy to give places to men to whom
Nature has refused parts
Encounter with dignity and self-command
unbecoming provocations
Error to admit any neutrality at all
Expeditious justice, as it is called
here
Extravagances of a head filled with
paradoxes
Feeling, however, the want of
consolation in their misfortunes
Forced military men to kneel before
priests
French Revolution was fostered by
robbery and murder
Future effects dreaded from its past
enormities
General who is too fond of his life
ought never to enter a camp
Generals of Cabinets are often
indifferent captains in the field
God is only the invention of fear
Gold, changes black to white, guilt to
innocence
Hail their sophistry and imposture as
inspiration
He was too ho
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