“Ruffian or devil, black as hell or bright as angels, thenceforth he was nothing to me.”
Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) American novelist, historian and editor
Wieland; or, the Transformation (1798)
“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.”
Noir comme le diable, chaud comme l'enfer, pur comme un ange, doux comme l'amour.
frequently misattributed to Talleyrand, no primary source exists, its not his style of speech, and he famously drank tea not coffee.
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