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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.


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MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.
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DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
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DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
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DE LANGE Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
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BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
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ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY) A new maxim is often a brilliant error.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES The human heart will never wrinkle.
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CHRISTIAN DE DUVE Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
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YVONNE DE CARLO I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
YVONNE DE CARLO After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a prop...
YVONNE DE CARLO The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to d...
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotio...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the histo...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festi...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
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