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“Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.”
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“If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.”
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“I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.”
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“... age is nothing but death that is conscious.”
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“Leadership is the initiative to conquer our limitations and to more ably extend our abilities over a greater area.”
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“All sweeping assertions are erroneous.”
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“When one gets near the grave, Margaret, there is a little light from beyond, and many things are seen not seen before.”
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“... books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.”