Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTEvery government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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You must render: never report.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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