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“The good Avvocato, finding you better disposed, will receive you with more confidence. For that matter I, too, ten months ago, had few hopes of you, I tell you in all honesty, all the more so because today my hopes are great.’ ‘Oh”
― Confessions of an Italian
― Confessions of an Italian
“On August 26 the Assembly responded by conferring French citizenship upon Joseph Priestley, Jeremy Bentham, William Wilberforce, Anacharsis Cloots, Johann Pestalozzi, Thaddeus Kosciusko, Friedrich Schiller, George Washington, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.”
― The Age of Napoleon: The Story of Civilization, Volume XI
― The Age of Napoleon: The Story of Civilization, Volume XI
“What a mess the world is in,” cried the man, reading the news in his paper. “It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.”
― The Angel's Game
― The Angel's Game
“Women, our superiors! Yes, my brothers: accept this strange judgement from the mouth of one who has known many of them. They”
― Confessions of an Italian
― Confessions of an Italian
“Those who have minds have no regard for birth.”
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
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