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Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
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Foreign Minister
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Poet
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
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Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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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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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men hence, fancy often allures them.
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The people only understand what they can feel the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
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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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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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