"Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death. [Fr., Le ciel me prive d'une epouse qui ne m'a jamais donne d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort.]"

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 868-871), 1922.

Louis XIV

#Grief Quotes #Wife Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.”
“Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.”
“There were tiny stars behind my eyelids, a whole galaxy of tiny, spinning stars.”
“Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.
“It's one of these wonderful economic coincidences.”
“All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.”

Source : Winslow Homer, John Wilmerding (1972). “Winslow Homer”
“Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.”
“Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2017). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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