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Fiction is the microscope of truth.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
Historian
Poet
Politician
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Ink is the transcript of thought.
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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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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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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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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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Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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