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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now."


"The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man."


"The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth."


"To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face."
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