Germaine de Staël

Puzzles

• Politeness is the art of choosing among your ___.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Germaine de Staël?

  • → The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to the ages other women.
  • → An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
  • → The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
  • → We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Germaine de Staël.

  • → Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
  • → I do not believe in ghosts, but I am awfully afraid of them.
  • → One would risk being disgusted if one saw politics, justice, and one’s dinner in the making.
  • → There is one advantage in a plurality of wifes; they fight each other, instead of their husbands.
  
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