In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most … - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat. , Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit. ]

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.

Simple, Sublime, Thing, Truth

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We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

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When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

Library, Reading, Step, Steps, Understand

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

Sleep, Night, Insomnia, Fifty, Twelve

there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!

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long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.

Continue, Forget, Kindness, Lying, Stir, Travel

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Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat. , Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit. ]

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