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Tag Name "Savoir" (12)

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Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]
Irving Stone
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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
Aldous Huxley
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Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.
Charles Baudelaire
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What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]
Francois Rabelais
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La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.
Honore de Balzac
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France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country, and the Americans are the masters of the world - for cinema, it's true.
Michel Ocelot
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After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.
Wallace Stevens
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A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.
Alain Ducasse
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To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]
Cardinal Richelieu
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Creativity is really at the center of what I do, it's a mix of creativity, innovation and savoir faire that creates magical products.
Delphine Arnault
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The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.
Henry Miller
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Ash should take the ladies, because he's charming. Ash looked pleased. Jared raised his eyebrows. Are you saying that I'm not a charmer? You are very dear to me, but you have all the savoir faire of a wildebeest, Kami told him. A wildebeest, Jared repeated. A dashingly handsome wildebeest, Kami assured him.
Sarah Rees Brennan