"My letter is so long I fear that you will not read it to the end...

.Oblige me by forgetting your usual indolence."-- Letter of Chabot to Danton, Frimaire 12, year II.

"I know your genius, my dear colleague, and consequently your natural indolent disposition.

I was afraid that you would not read me through if I wrote a long letter.

Nevertheless I rely on your friendship to make an exception in my favor."] [Footnote 3175: Lagrange, the mathematician, and senator under the empire, was asked how it was that he voted for the terrible annual conscriptions.