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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn on Christmas

1792–1870 Switzerland

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4 quotes

Love for old men is sun on the snow: it dazzles more than it warms them.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one’s dearest friends.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

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