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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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