Colette

Puzzles

• Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what ___ you.
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• No one asked you to be ___. Get to work.
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• Our perfect companions never have fewer than four ___.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Colette?

  • → Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
  • → True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
  • → It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
  • → What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Colette.

  • → You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
  • → The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
  • → Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
  • → Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Colette.

  • → Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
  • → Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.
  • → Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
  • → Youth is not the age to seduce, it’s the age to be seduced.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Colette. Which one?

  • → Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
  • → The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
  • → Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
  • → You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
  
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