Note 604 — Chapter II · MIL-HUIT-CENT-TRENTE.
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He himself has said truly and nobly of one of the few who did escape them—Gautier: “Jamais un sentiment mauvais, soit de hauteur soit de jalousie mesquine, n’est entre dans [son] âme.” To be thus is to be one of ten thousand: even to kick the bad thoughts out when they present themselves is no common merit (N. L., vi. 325).