Benjamin Constant. 1767-1830. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Benjamin Constant. (1767–1830)

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. 1

Note 1.
This saying, “Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j’ai vécu avec elle,” is assigned to Constant by A. Hayward in his Introduction to the “Autobiography and Letters” of Mrs. Piozzi. [back]

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