Famous quotes containing the words jean de and/or count:
“Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“I wish to say that, in so far as I can, I hope to promote the enactment of further legislation of this character.
There’s nothing else one can say about me—I’m superfluous, in a word. A supernumerary—that’s all. Nature evidently didn’t count on my appearance, and consequently treated me as an unexpected, uninvited guest.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)
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