Misfortunes never come singly, but in battalions.

La maulvaise Fortune
Ne vient jamais, qu'elle n'en apporte une
Ou deux ou trois avecques elle.

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Reported in The Oxford Treasury of French Literature (1915), p. 174. Cp. Shakespeare, Hamlet, IV, v: "When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions."

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