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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
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Poet
Politician
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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