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“Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.” quote by Madame de Stael — Download Open image

“Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.”

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Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not…

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There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

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in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to…

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[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It…

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Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

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Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

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A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

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However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

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The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

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