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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

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To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

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Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

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Are you afraid of the good you might do?

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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

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