Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.”
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“How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?”
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“Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue.”
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“Do not sanction an absurdity.”
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“In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.”
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“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.”
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“Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!”
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“Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.”
-- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis
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