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Mais elle était du mond, où les plus belles choses Ont le pire destin; Et Rose, elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses, L'espace d'un matin.
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Les belles actions cachées sont les plus estimables.
Blaise Pascal— Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées, I, IX. 21.
Cette bonhomie apparente qui séduit les nouveaux venus et n'empêche aucune trahison, qui se permet et justifie tout, qui jette les hauts cris à une blessure et la pardonne, est un des caractères distinctifs du journaliste. Cette camaraderie, mot créé par un homme d'esprit, corrode les plus belles âmes: elle rouille leur fierté, tue le principe des grandes œuvres, et consacre la lâcheté de l'esprit.
honoré de balzac— This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.Ch. 4: A Man of Note
Ye belles, and ye flirts, and ye pert little things, Who trip in this frolicsome round, Pray tell me from whence this impertinence springs, The sexes at once to confound?
— Paul Whitehead, Song for Ranelagh.
After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the belles ringeth to evensonge.
— Stephen Hawes, Pastime of Pleasure (1517). As given in Percy Society Ed, Chapter XLII, p. 207. Also in the Maskell books. British Museum (1578). An old hymn found among the marginal rhymes of a Book of Prayers of Queen Elizabeth, to accompany illuminations of The Triumph of Death. Hawes probably used the idea found in an old Latin hymn.
