Alphonse Karr Quotes
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I am thankful that thorns have roses.
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Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
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Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
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We can invent only with memory.
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If women only knew the extent of their power!
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Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.
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All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
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The more the change, the more it is the same thing.
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Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
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A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
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If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
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Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
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The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.
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If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.
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Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
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Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.
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One expresses well only the love he does not feel.
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Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
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Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
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Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.
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A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.
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Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
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I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
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Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
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Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.
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Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.
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