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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: I. PARDONNEZ-MOI, said the landlord.
I cannot take a fitter opportunity to observe, once for all, that
TANT PIS and TANT MIEUX, being two of the great hinges in French
conversation, a stranger would do well to set himself right in the
use of them, before he gets to Paris.
A prompt French marquis at our ambassador's table demanded of Mr.
H-, if he was H- the poet? No, said Mr. H-, mildly. - TANT PIS,
replied the marquis.
It is H- the historian, said another, - TANT MIEUX, said the
marquis. And Mr. H-, who is a man of an excellent heart, return'd
thanks for both.
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