Cyrano de Bergerac Short Quotes

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I had made myself a Machine which I fancied my carry me up as high as I pleased.

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A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.

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Most men judge only by their senses and let themselves be persuaded by what they see.

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Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?

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The Architector that built my Prison, having made my Entries into it, did not bethink himself of making one Outlet.

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Even though they, themselves, were material beings, they could show themselves to us only by taking on bodies that our senses were able to perceive.

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After a while the press of business in the province put an end to our philosophizing, and I returned with increased determination to my plans to fly to the Moon.

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This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

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You praise a man for having killed his enemy by means of an advantage; and by praising him for boldness you praise him for a sin against nature, because boldness leads to destruction.

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He was high enough still to have been hurt by the fall, had it not been for - the large skirts of his Gown, which being swelled by the Wind, gently upheld him till he set Foot on ground.

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