I am getting rather astonishing in my Italian conversation. I believe I talk a mixture of Dante and the worst modern slang.

“Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to…”

“The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceive…”

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us …”

“I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and…”