WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:56:12 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Du Deffand, Marie – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Du Deffand, Marie -- Letter to Horace Walpole (6 Jun 1767) https://wist.info/du-deffand-marie/27890/ https://wist.info/du-deffand-marie/27890/#respond Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:05:45 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27890 The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs.


Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand (1697–1780) French hostess and patron of the arts [Madame du Deffand].
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