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At twenty every one is republican.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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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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Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.
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