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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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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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