Talleyrand Managed

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“She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.”
—Charles Maurice Talleyrand (1754–1838)

“Writing, when properly managed ... is but a different name for conversation: As no one ... would venture to talk all;Mso no author, who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good breeding, would presume to think all: The truest respect which you can pay to the reader’s understanding, is to ... leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)