J. Christopher Herold quotes
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“Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.”
-- J. Christopher HeroldSource : J. Christopher Herold (2016). “Bonaparte In Egypt [Illustrated Edition]”, p.559, Pickle Partners Publishing
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“There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.”
-- J. Christopher HeroldSource : J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.432, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had.”
-- J. Christopher HeroldSource : J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.”
-- J. Christopher HeroldSource : J. Christopher Herold (1983). “The Horizon book of the age of Napoleon”, Harmony
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“The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torchbearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.”
-- J. Christopher HeroldSource : "Napoleon".
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“His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.”
-- J. Christopher Herold
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Source : 'Listener' 6 June 1963
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Source : Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.133, Xist Publishing
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“The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?”
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“Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.”
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“Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.”
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