Quotes from authors passed in 1842
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
William Ellery Channing
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
Stendhal
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
Henri B. Stendhal
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
William Ellery Channing

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Queen Marie of Romania
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