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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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Esteem incites friendship, but not love the former is the twin brother of Reverence the latter is the child of Equality.
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