Distrust the man who smiles before he speaks.
(Tartarin on the Alps, 1885)

Alphonse Daudet

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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

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Where would be the merit if heroes were never afraid?

Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin of Tarascon, 1872)

Hatred is the anger of the weak.

Alphonse Daudet (Letters from My Mill, 1869)

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