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• When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able…
• Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
• The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
• All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
• How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
• Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
• Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
• Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
• Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
• Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
• Chance generally favors the prudent.
• Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

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