Roman Rule

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“The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)