“Clamour can be stifled, but how avenge oneself on silence?”

—  Alfred De Vigny

On étouffe les clameurs, mais comment se venger du silence?
Chap. 26, p. 433; translation by William Hazlitt from Cinq-Mars (1847) p. 344.
Cinq-Mars; ou, une conjuration sous Louis XIII (1826)

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French poet, playwright, and novelist 1797–1863

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