Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… of Monsieur de Nivernois, for you must not believe a syllable of what you read in their novels. It requires the greatest curiosity, or the greatest habitude, to discover the smallest connection between the sexes here. N o familiarity, but … et d'Egmont, they have not yet lost their characters, nor got any. You must not attribute my intimacy with Paris to curiosity alone. An accident unlocked the doors for me. That passe-partout, called the fashion, has made them fly …
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