"There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race."

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We like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the course of whole years, and for the same reason the devout like to spend much time with their confessor; it is the pleasure of talking of themselves, even though it be to talk ill.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne