A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Madame de Staël

5 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

I desire no other evidence of the truth of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.— filed under Christianity
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.— filed under Conscience
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, takes from attention its strength, from thought its originality, from feeling its earnestness.— filed under Frivolity
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.— filed under Love
Pride is the master sin of the devil.— filed under Pride
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