Discretion is not the better part of biography.
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The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
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How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
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With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
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In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
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It is not the historian's business to be complimentary it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them . . . dispassionately, impartially and without ulterior motives.
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