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O./15.73/10/f. 17
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Note on identification by General Meredith Read of a quotation used by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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- [1870s?] (Production)
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The quotation, 'Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte pour le sot / L'honnête homme trompe s'éloigne et ne dit mot" was identified by the Chief Librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale as being from, La Coquette Corrigée, a 1756 comedy by de la Noue. It was quoted, with identification in George Otto Trevelyan's Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (1876).
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See Correspondence concerning General Read's discovery of the authorship of a couplet quoted by Lord Macaulay in
his Journal of Feb. 15, 1851: Notebook 49: Box 7, No. 2, John Meredith Read Papers, A.R28, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.