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"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"
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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."
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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
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"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."
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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."
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"Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in."
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"There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it."
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"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
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"When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back."
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"No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart."
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"We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements."
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"We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous."
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"France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man."
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"The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch."
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"Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever."
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"From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own."
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"One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact."
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"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"
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"The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart."
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