Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.
Jennifer DonnellyStichwörter: beauty excess class-struggle grandeur paris french-revolution louis-xiv wastefulness
Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.
Jennifer DonnellyStichwörter: royalty kings french-revolution louis-xiv versailles
Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find.
François MagendieStichwörter: science greatness passion discovery humbleness comparison louis-xiv chiffonier grandiose scavenger
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