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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Foreign Minister
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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