| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Madame de Genlis |
| | | Do not sanction an absurdity. | 1 |
| Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts. | 2 |
| In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again. | 3 |
| It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all. | 4 |
| Lucky people are her favorites. | 5 |
| Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not. | 6 |
| Ugliness, after virtue, to the best guardian of a young woman. | 7 | | |
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