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Famous quotes containing the words duc de, wealthy and/or duc:

“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“There lived a wife at Usher’s Well,
And a wealthy wife was she;
She had three stout and stalwart sons,
And sent them o’er the sea.”
—Unknown. The Wife of Usher’s Well (l. 1–4)

“The passions are the only orators that are always successful in persuading. They are a kind of art in nature, that proceeds upon infallible rules; and the plainest man, with the help of passion, shall prevail more than the most eloquent man without it.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)