Oh what a valiant faculty is hope.
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Zum Autor"I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world."
"We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health."
"I quote others in order to better express my own self."
"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port."
"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."
"There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger."