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Quotes from Gil Blas — Alain-René Lesage

d. 1747 France

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A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

Gil Blas (1715)

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Gil Blas (1715)

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

Gil Blas (1715)

I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.

Gil Blas (1715)

Pride and conceit were the original sin of man.

Gil Blas (1715)

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.

Gil Blas (1715)

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