Edmondo De Amicis quotes
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“Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love.”
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“One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again...”
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“Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.”
-- Edmondo De AmicisSource : "Constantinople". Book by Edmondo De Amicis, 1877.
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“Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus.”
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“A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.”
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“What is working stain, does not soil.”
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“It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.”
-- Edmondo De Amicis
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“Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.”
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“An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.”
Source : "A Long Time Coming". Interview with Rob Hart, chuckpalahniuk.net. August 27, 2008.
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