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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.