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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection…
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If this is dying, I don't think much of it.
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Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
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The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background,…
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It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
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Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of…
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The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible…
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Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to…
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The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
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How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
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Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole…
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English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value…
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When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to…
— Gustave Courbet
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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was…
— William Robertson Smith
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Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged,…
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him,…
— Erica Jong
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know…
— Anna Sewell
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Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness…
— Joseph Conrad
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A man could not always be where he belonged, though.
— George R. R. Martin
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The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed…
— Hannah Arendt
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He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they…
— Doc Severinsen
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