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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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