Nowhere but in France are ...

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.
Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.