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Alphonse de Lamartine
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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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It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
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Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
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The people only understand what they can feel the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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Ink is the transcript of thought.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
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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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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans we have one heart or we don't have any.
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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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