“Mistrust first impulses, they are nearly always good.”

— Casimir, Comte de Montrond

Défiez-vous des premiers mouvements, ils sont presque toujours bons.
Quoted by Rees Howell Gronow in Reminiscences of Captain Gronow, formerly of the Grenadier Guards and M.P. for Stafford, being Anecdotes of the Camp, the Court, and the Clubs, at the close of the last War with France http://books.google.com/books?id=04BHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22D%C3%A9fiez-vous+des+premiers+mouvements+ils+sont+presque+toujours+bons%22&pg=PA239#v=onepage (1862)

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Défiez-vous des premiers mouvements, ils sont presque toujours bons.

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