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I know that you go into the world and meet the handsomest and the wittiest women in Paris. May I not suppose that some one of those mermaids has deigned to clasp you in her cold and scaly arms, and that she has inspired the answer whose prosaic opinions sadden me?
Though, to deceive the public, he abhorred villainy in word, he never concealed his admiration in deed of a 'highwayman who robs like a gentleman. 'There is a beauty in all the works of nature, he observes in one of his wittiest exordia, 'which we are unable to define, though all the world is convinced of its existence: so in every action and station of life there is a grace to be attained, which will make a man pleasing to all about him and serene in his own mind. Some there are, he continues, who have placed 'this beauty in vice itself; otherwise it is hardly probable that they could commit so many irregularities with a strong gust and an appearance of satisfaction. Notwithstanding that the word 'vice' is used in its conventional sense, we have here the key to Captain Smith's position.
To these we may add Galiani, the smallest, the wittiest, and the most delightful of abbes, whose piercing insight and Machiavellian subtlety lent a piquant charm to the stories with which for hours he used to enliven this choice company; Caraccioli, gay, simple, ingenuous, full of Neapolitan humor, rich in knowledge and observation, luminous with intelligence and sparkling with wit; and the Comte de Crentz, the learned and versatile Swedish minister, to whom nature had "granted the gift of expressing and painting in touches of fire all that had struck his imagination or vividly seized his soul."
Miss Edwards and Lord Anne Hamilton, Mrs. But the discussion of this subject would prove endless. Right or wrong, Fielding has certainly suffered in popularity for his candour in this respect, since one of the wisest and wittiest books ever written cannot, without hesitation, be now placed in the hands of women or very young people.
In the days of our male ancestors' external vanities it is quite possible that they, too, felt unconquerable when panoplied in their best. The ball that night was at Richmond Hill, the beautiful home of the Vice-President and his wife, Abigail Adams, one of the wisest, wittiest, and most agreeable women of her time.
My beloved's name was Victoire de Froulay; she is now Marquise de Crequi." "Ah, the Marquise de Crequi!" said Voltaire, with animation: "one of the wittiest and most celebrated women of Paris." "She is still living?" said the king, thoughtfully. "would you like to meet her again, my lord?" "Yes, your majesty, for one hour, to say to her that I am a Catholic, and that we shall meet in heaven!"
"A question of death-bed, a question of death-bed, doctor a reduction EX CAPITE LECTI Withering against Wilibus about the MORBUS SONTICUS. I pleaded the cause for the pursuer I, and and why, I shall forget my own name I, and he that was the wittiest and the best-humoured man living " The description enabled the doctor to fill up the blank, and the patient joyfully repeated the name suggested.
I knew that in this same way Lord Haldane had been so captivated as to come out of the Emperor's presence unable to say anything but "Sittlichkeit" for weeks; that good old John Burns had been betrayed by a single dinner at Potsdam, and that the Sultan of Turkey had been told that his Answers to Ultimatums were the wittiest things written since Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
Happily you are rich, and what would be a disaster to another fortune is scarcely more than a slight disappointment to you. I take the respectful liberty of talking once more with the prettiest and wittiest woman of her century, in order to submit to her certain ideas, and to offer her a fresh piece of advice, which I believe important.
"Better than I thought I should. She is well-bred, unassuming, and very entertaining when she likes. She has told us some of the wittiest stories I've heard for a long time. Didn't our laughter wake you?" replied Lucia. "Yes. Now atone for it by amusing me with a repetition of these witty tales." "That is impossible; her accent and manner are half the charm," said Ned.
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