Madame De Stael Quotes

[On Russia:] In Every Way, There Is Something Gigantic About This People: Ordinary Dimensions Have No Applications Whatever To It. I Do Not Mean By This That True Greatness And Stability Are Never Met With; But Their Boldness, Their Imaginativeness Knows No Bounds. With Them Everything Is Colossal Rather Than Well-proportioned, Audacious Rather Than Well-considered, And If They Do Not Attain Their Goals, It Is Because They Exceed Them.

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