« Better to read a man than ten books. »
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Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Causeries du lundi |
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Causeries du lundi
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« It's not despise enough some people to say out loud that we despise them. Only silence is the sovereign contempt. »
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Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
(Source unknown) |
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
(Source unknown)
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« He went straight to the head, to the Generalissimo to Voltaire in person, and insulted him of sorts, giving him all the names, with a verve, a mordant, quite happy and equal to its object insolent. It is angry red, but he was alone; We watched, we let him do and say, and go back, we even talked out loud its approach and boldness of bel air. »
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Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Port-Royal |
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Port-Royal
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