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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions It is a friend's sad goodbye it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!
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The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
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The photographer will never replace the painter one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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