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Alain-Rene Lesage

(1668–1747) Novelist

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Alain-Rene Lesage was a novelist.

Quick Facts About Alain-Rene Lesage

Born: May 6, 1668
Died: November 17, 1747
Profession: Novelist

About Alain-Rene Lesage

[Wikidata] French writer (1668–1747)... | [Wikipedia] Alain-René Lesage was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks, his comedy Turcaret (1709), and his picaresque novel Gil Blas (1715–1735).

Quotes by Alain-Rene Lesage

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

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Breathing

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The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when…

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Angry

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A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

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Flatterer

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Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

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Contentment

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Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head.…

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Brilliant

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On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help…

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Helping

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Plain as a pike-staff.

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Staff

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Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent…

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Belly

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I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because…

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Circumstances

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It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

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Expenses

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Evil tongues never want a whet.

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Evil

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