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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
One mustnt ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for

One mustnt ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. – Gustave Flaubert

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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. – Gustave Flaubert

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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert

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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. – James Madison

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With some whose nerves have a deep covering of fat, happiness is less of a problem that it is an accident of anatomy. – Attributed to Henry S. Haskins

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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. – Samuel Johnson

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest. – Steve Jobs

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A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. – English Proverb

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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

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I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled. – Rumi

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