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1 Alain-René Lesage Alain-René Lesage, also spelled Le Sage was a French novelist and playwright born at Sarzeau, in the peninsula of Rhuys, between the Morbihan and the sea, Brittany.Claude Lesage, the father of the novelist, held the united positions of advocate, more..more..

2 “ Alain-René Lesage:I don't know any more than you what the future will hold. But my point of view is different. You see despair and I see cause for hope. I read the future in a way that is more agreeable than you do. #Books - Reading#Books - Reading

3 “ Alain-René Lesage:To forbid wine to a man of your type is the same as forbidding women to a man of a different sort. #Alcohol and Alcoholism #Alcohol and Alcoholism

4 “ Alain-René Lesage:Plain as a pike-staff. #Devil#Devil

5 “ Alain-René Lesage:It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory. #Memory#Memory

6 “ Alain-René Lesage:Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. #Conceit#Conceit

7 “ Alain-René Lesage:I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste. #Taste#Taste

8 “ Alain-René Lesage:A smart daughter ought not to examine her future husband too closely. She ought to consider it a pleasure to find one agreeable to her father. #Marriage#Marriage

9 “ Alain-René Lesage:A flatterer can risk everything with great personages. #Politicians and Politics#Politicians and Politics

10 “ Alain-René Lesage:A good doctor pursues his calling without any regard to a bad result. Otherwise, teaching in medical school might be called into question and where would we be then? #Medicine#Medicine

11 “ Alain-René Lesage:Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly. #Devil#Devil

12 “ Alain-René Lesage:The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing. #Passion#Passion

13 “ Alain-René Lesage:The more I have to suffer, the more my character will grow. #Character#Character

14 “ Alain-René Lesage:In order to know the worth of a virtuous husband, is it not necessary for the wife to be dispirited herself? First, give her a young man of twenty, and not only will she be fine, she'll have a reasonable husband. #Trust#Trust

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