Emile Souvestre quotes
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“Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.”
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“The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.”
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“Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.”
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“Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.”
-- Emile SouvestreSource : "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 549), 1886.
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“Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.”
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“All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
Source : "The Knock at the Stage Door". Reader's Digest, December 1933.
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“Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.”
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“When one door opens, so does another one.”
Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.105, BOOM! Studios
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“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.”
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“Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.”
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“No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.”
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Source : Anna Wickham (1971). “Selected poems”, Chatto & Windus
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