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1 " Well, their piety is more evolved,” said Mrs. Pace. “In America we have only two forms, as Matthew Arnold said: the bitter and the smug. In France, it appears, there is a third type, the worldly. "
― Diane Johnson , Le Divorce
2 " Yet—some Frenchman had written—“absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones. "
3 " One is never as happy as one thinks, nor as unhappy as one hopes. "