Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne quotes
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“I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.”
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“Women are the guardians of morality.”
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“Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.”
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“The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.”
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“Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them.”
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“The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.”
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“In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.”
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“However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.”
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“It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.”
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“The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.”
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“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
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Source : "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.