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Colette was 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi. Explore interesting quotes on thing.

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“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”

My Mother’s House, "The Priest on the Wall" (1922)

“We only do well the things we like doing.”

Prisons and Paradise (1932)

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

New York World-Telegram and Sun (1961)

“A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men… nine men out of ten are superstitious, nineteen out of twenty believe in the evil eye, and ninety-eight out of a hundred are afraid of spiders. They forgive us — oh! for many things, but not for the absence in us of their own feelings.”

Aunt Alicia
Gigi (1945)

“As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.”

“The South of France”, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps