Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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Misattributed: Injustice - is a mother who is never barren, and bears children worthy of her.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Causeries du lundi - 1857 - volume 1; E. J. Trechmann, translator Causeries du Lundi - George Routledge, 1909 - volume 1.


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A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Society for Pure English, Tract 5 The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems Author: Society for Pure English - June 5, 2004.


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Silence is the sovereign contempt.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Pensées et maximes - 1954 Nicholas Rescher Communicative Pragmatism and Other Philosophical Essays on Language - 1998.


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To lend freshness to things known, to spread knowledge of things new; an excellent program for a critic.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Causeries du lundi, volume 11 - 1856; Paris: Garnier, 1868 Philo M. Buck, Jr. Literary Criticism - 1930.


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Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Derniers portraits littéraires - 1852; Paris: Didier, 1858) translated by W. Fraser Rae, in Sainte-Beuve English Portraits - London: Dalby, Isbister, 1875.


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Let us beware of irony when making judgements. Of all the dispositions of the mind, irony is the least intelligent.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Notebook entry, February 24, 1848, cited from Les cahiers de Sainte-Beuve - Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1876 - Christopher Prendergast The Classic - 2007.


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Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

"Vie de Joseph Delorme - 1829, cited from Poésies completes de Sainte-Beuve - Paris: Charpentier, 1840 - Mardy Grothe Oxymoronica - 2004.


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