“I told you how it would be.” Strange mode of comforting; but such is the satisfaction which vanity tastes at the expense of misfortune.[Je vous l’avais bien dit. Singulière manière de consoler; satisfaction que la vanité se donne aux dépens de la douleur!]

Source:(ed. H. W. Derby, 1861) Book XVIII, Chapter I, Page 336
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