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There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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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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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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