| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 48016 |
| QUOTATION: | Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George Sand (1804–1876), French novelist. Letter, May 25, 1866. Correspondence, vol. 4 (1883).
Real name Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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