Velvet and Lace

“YOU need make no effort to persuade me that others are more refined than I. I tremble that others do not possess enough of what I have too vigorously … I am too ignorant not to be violent; but they lack red blood, hate for a society in which they live, a society where velvet and lace cover up its sins and its corruption. They do not know what is happening in the street; they have never set their feet therein; but I come from it, I was born in it, and more than that, I still live in it.”

— Louis Veuillot, French journalist, 1813-1883

 

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