“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”
Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer
"My Uncle Sosthenes"
Source: The Complete Short Stories Vol. 2 of 3
“Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.”
Of Marriage.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
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Section 2, member 3, subsection 6.
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