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“With you it is always the law, never equity.”
“Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.”
“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
“What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.”
“Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience."Possibly. But I like my madness.”
“It is a futile and ridiculous strugglebut then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.”
“But he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome-- so much you will admit; nor will you deny that he is very wealthy and very powerful; the greatest nobleman in Brittany. He will make me a grea...”
“Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.”
“Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the stud...”
“And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regar...”
“We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.”
“You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.”
“Do you know, Andr, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.”
“I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.”
“To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not systems. Can you and our vapouring friends of the Literary Chamber of Rennes, or any other learned ...”
“I desire a society which selects its rulers from the best elements of every class and denies the right of any class or corporation to usurp the government itself--whether it be the nobles, the cler...”
“Without entering here into a dissertation upon the historical romance, it may be said that in proper hands it has been and should continue to be one of the most valued and valuable expressions of t...”
“Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction his earliest conscious impressions of the general ...”
“Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.”
“It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.”
