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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Lemierre

It is a profound error to presume that everything has been discovered; it is to take the horizon which bounds the eye for the limit of the world.

L’Allégorie habite un palais diaphane—Allegory dwells in a transparent palace.

Le trident de Neptune est le sceptre du monde—The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world.

Que la Suisse soit libre, et que nos noms périssent!—Let Switzerland be free and our names perish!

The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the planet.