"Travel is a fools paradise."
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"A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet."
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"Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it."
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"The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer."
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"Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous."
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"The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love."
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"Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices."
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"The never-ending task of self improvement."
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"If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own."
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"In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful"
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"We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken."
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"The virtue of books is to be readable."
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"My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation."
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"The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets."
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"Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden."
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"But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's."
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"Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner."
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"Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France."
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"The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood."
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"Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses."
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