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Kindness is virtue itself.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
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Foreign Minister
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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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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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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