Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis quotes
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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.”
-- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de GenlisSource : William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.22
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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.”
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Source : Alec Guinness (1986). “Blessings in Disguise”, New York : Knopf
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“You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.”
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“Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.”
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Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press
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