“You do not play then at whist, sir! Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!”

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Hélas! quelle triste vieilesse vous vous préparez!
Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 90.

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Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Hélas! quelle triste vieilesse vous vous préparez!

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