“One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.”
La moitié de ma vie a mis l’autre au tombeau.
Chimène, act III, scene iii.
Le Cid (1636)
“At least half of my life’s many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.”
Vadim
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