She Is Laughing Up Her Sleeve At

It Is Madness Beyond Compare To Try To Reform The World.

What! Would You Make No Distinction Between Hypocrisy And Devotion? Would You Give Them The Same Names, And Respect The Mask As You Do The Face? Would You Equate Artifice And Sincerity? Confound Appearance With Truth? Regard The Phantom As The Very Person? Value Counterfeit As Cash?

Frenchmen Have An Unlimited Capacity For Gallantry And Indulge It On Every Occasion.

No Reason Makes It Right To Shun Accepted Ways From Stubborn Spite; And We May Better Join The Foolish Crowd Than Cling To Wisdom, Lonely Though Unbowed.

The Ancients, Sir, Are The Ancients, And We Are The People Of Today.