“Your Eminence is as great a man as I have ever met.”
“Then God have mercy on humankind,” Richelieu replied.
Source: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 11 “The Kitten and the Cardinal” (p. 207)
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“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”
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Rob Payne (1973) Canadian writer
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“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”
Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.”
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As quoted in The Story of Civilization : The Age of Reason Begins, 1558-1648 (1935) by Will Durant, p. 605
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