Edmond Francois Valentin About Quotes

• It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Country, Men, Information

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• It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Long, Age, Victim

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• Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Marriage, Life Is Like, Battle

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• But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Hands, Long, Gone

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• I fight fairly, and in good faith.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Fighting, Good Faith

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• I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

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  Talking, Names, Enlightened

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• At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular, I perceived coming towards me, a tall, beardless, fair-haired young fellow, wearing a German cap and gold-rimmed spectacles.

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  Morning, Book, Thinking

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