Dec 13, 2017
St. Aubert was pleased with him: 'Here is the real ingenuousness and ardour of youth,' said he to himself; 'this young man has never been at Paris.'
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
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St. Aubert was pleased with him: 'Here is the real ingenuousness and ardour of youth,' said he to himself; 'this young man has never been at Paris.'
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
But but it wasn’t
I thought about this quote the other day and had to double check it. Perspicacity is “the quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness”. Ingenuousness is “candid; sincere” or “innocent; naive”.
All he said was that Jimmy was smarter than he was naive...
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
Alexandre Dumas