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 DonnellyMots clés 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 DonnellyMots clés 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 MagendieMots clés science greatness passion discovery humbleness comparison louis-xiv chiffonier grandiose scavenger
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