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Quotes from Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble) — André Maurois

1885–1967 France

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As for hatred of a tyrant, that is a more human sentiment which has full play in time of war, when force and the mob are one. Emperors must be mad fools to decide on declaring wars which substitute an armed nation for their Praetorian Guards. That idiocy accomplished, despotism of course produces revolution until terrorism leads to the inevitable reaction.

Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble) (1918)

If you have observed nature, you would have proved that the question of the numbers of mates is certainly not a question of arithmetic. With gnats, ten females are born to one male. Now gnats are not polygamous. Nine out of those females dies spinsters. It is only the old maids who bite us, from which one sees that celibacy engenders ferocity among insects as well as among women.

Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble) (1918)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: André Maurois (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.