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• Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Grace, Bait, Hook

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• Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Years, Revolution, Imagine

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• There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Failure, Opposites, People

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• The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

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  Hate, Men, Too Much

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• The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

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  Men, Shadow, Reputation

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• In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

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  Writing, Character, Fate

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• War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

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  Peace, Military, War

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• Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
  [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

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  Men, Speech, Parole

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• Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

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  Hero, Men, Political

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• I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Public Opinion, Ministers, Found

  Sain in the Chamber of Peers in 1821. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 570, 1922.

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• Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means.
  [Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Life, Mean, Years

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• Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

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  Merit, Method, Should

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• There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

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  Wiser, Persons

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• The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

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  Too Much, Shame, Certain

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• In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.

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  Sarcastic, Flirting, Order

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• Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

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  Too Much, Unhappiness, Crime

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• A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

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  Political, Noble, Ears

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• Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Men, Speech, Parole

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• Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Coffee, Night, Blood

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• Methods are the masters of masters.

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  Masters, Method

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• She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

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  Sarcastic, Good Friend, Fishing

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• Nothing succeeds so well as success.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Success, Succeed, Wells

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• Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

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  Coffee, Espresso, France

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• Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.

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  Love, Reality, Romance

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• Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

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  Years, History, Pleasure

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