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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
S.A. Bent, comp. Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men. 1887.
Madame de la Meilleraye
[Marie Ruzé d’Effiat, Marquise de la Meilleraye; a cousin of Cardinal Richelieu; her son married a niece of Cardinal Mazarin.]
God will think twice before damning a gentleman of his quality (Quand il s’agit des gens de cette qualité, Dieu y regarde bien à deux fois pour les damner).
Of the Chevalier de Savoie, a brother of Prince Eugene, a man of high birth but vicious life. The same remark was made of himself by the Duc de Clermont-Tonnerre: “God will never dare to damn a duke and peer” (Le bon Dieu n’aura jamais le cœur de damner un duc et pair).
