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What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.


Pierre Bonnard

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ELIZABETH OLSEN I don’t have any fancy story,
about the way we fell in love.
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PIERRE CONEILLE Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfai...
PIERRE CORNEILLE All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. [Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud...
PIERRE CORNEILLE All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extre...
PIERRE CORNEILLE To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so. [Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
PIERRE CHARRON Peace is produced by war.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but...
PIERRE CHARRON Happiness seems made to be shared.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
PIERRE CHARRON A liar is full of oaths.
PIERRE CORNEILLE All evils are equal when they are extreme.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.
PIERRE CONEILLE Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
PIERRE CORNEILLE We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
PIERRE CORNEILLE A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
PIERRE BURTON We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
PIERRE CORNEILLE To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
PIERRE CORNEILLE One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
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PIERRE CONEILLE It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The true science and study of man is man.
PIERRE CHARRON To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
PIERRE CORNEILLE And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. [Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our frien...
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who forgives readily only invites offense. [Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.]
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PIERRE CARDIN Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
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PIERRE CORNEILLE Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]
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PIERRE BOURDIEU He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
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PIERRE BOURDIEU The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
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PIERRE TRUDEAU Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
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PIERRE REVERDY He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! ...
PIERRE CORNEILLE The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
PIERRE CHARRON If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
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PIERRE BAYLE in the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
PIERRE CORRIELLE When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.
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PIERRE TRUDEAU Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing thei...
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PIERRE TRUDEAU Love is a tyrant sparing none.
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PIERRE COFFIN Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
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PIERRE LOTI Creativity is to think more efficiently
PIERRE REVERDY He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
PIERRE LAPLACE By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction
PIERRE PACHET If it was an elective, you'd get twenty girls and three boys doing ballroom dancing. Girls want to d...
PIERRE DULAINE The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desir...
PIERRE BAYARD He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
PIERRE CORNEILLE And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to dist...
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS We are extremely excited to announce that Milan Hejduk has decided to commit to this franchise for t...
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