Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quote

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.


English Portraits (ed. 1875)


If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.