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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Guy de Maupassant

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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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Captain Government Responsibility
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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