United States or French Polynesia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But you make me think of a time when you were indeed wonderful to behold when the little French soldiers wore white cockades in their shakos when the diligence was forty hours going to Paris; and the great-booted postilion, as surveyed by youthful eyes from the coupe, with his jurons, his ends of rope for the harness, and his clubbed pigtail, was a wonderful being, and productive of endless amusement.
But I do possess relative independence that of the stoic who withdraws into the fortress of his will, and shuts the gates behind him. "Jurons, excepte Dieu, de n'avoir point de maitre." This oath of old Geneva remains my motto still. January 10, 1881. To let one's self be troubled by the ill-will, the ingratitude, the indifference, of others, is a weakness to which I am very much inclined.
Word Of The Day