"There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous."

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Napoleon I to Abbé du Pradt, at Warsaw. See Histoire de l'Ambassade dans la Grande Duché de Vasovie, Ed. 2, p. 219. Attributed also to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (traced from Napoleon to Thomas Paine, to Hugh Blair).