French - Writer | January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Our true passions are selfish.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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