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""I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.""
"A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."
"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."
"Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn."
"No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep."
"The cruel of heart have their own black happiness."
"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."
"Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams."
"Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second"
"Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing."
"By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour."
"Philosophy is the microscope of thought."
"A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?"
"Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow."
"When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything."
"Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery."
"To learn to read is to light a fire."
"Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary."
"Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone."