Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. - Theophile Gautier - Quotesmemo.com

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Theophile Gautier

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

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It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

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Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.

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What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.

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Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.

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Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.

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