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Alphonse Karr
Age: 81 †
Born: 1808
Born: November 24
Died: 1890
Died: September 29
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Critic
Florist
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Literary Critic
Novelist
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Paris
France
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr
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Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
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If women only knew the extent of their power!
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.
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Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.
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If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
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Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
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All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
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Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.
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Avoid all haste calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
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A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
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Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.
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Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
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Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
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We can invent only with memory.
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If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.
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Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.
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Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns I am thankful that thorns have roses.
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