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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...”
“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.”
“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 ...”
“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.”
