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“Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.”

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Alphonse de Lamartine was a French Romantic poet, novelist, and politician. He is known for his lyrical poetry and novels, which have had a profound influence on literature. more

“The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.”

“Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.”

Men Women Affection Misers Prodigals

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.”

Humans Two Given Women Compassion Human Nature Raises Painful Enthusiasm Heavenly

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

“In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.”

Fire Dinner Fling

Book:Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)

Source: Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)

“I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.”

Sometimes Hard Differences Scotch

Book:My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)

Source: My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)

“The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.”

Thinking Dislike Detest Irish Writers

Book:Behan Complete Plays

Source: Behan Complete Plays

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