Quotes by Achille Poincelot

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• A woman's faults, be they never so small, cast a shadow which all her virtues cannot dispel.

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• Delicacy is the coquetry of truth; fastidiousness is the prudery of falsehood.

  ― Achille Poincelot
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• Envy pierces more in the restriction of praises than in the exaggeration of its criticisms.

  ― Achille Poincelot
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• Self-abnegation is a trait most often seen in women, rarely in men.

  ― Achille Poincelot
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• The feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion in noble hearts.

  ― Achille Poincelot
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• There are certain epochs in art when simplicity is audacious originality.

  ― Achille Poincelot
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• There are some people who think that all the world should share their misfortune, although they do not share in the sufferings of anybody else.

  ― Achille Poincelot
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-abnegation
• exaggeration
• originality
• simplicity
• misfortune
• sufferings

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