{"author":"Alphonse Karr","author_id":"Alphonse+Karr","total_quotes":12,"quotes":[{"text":"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.","author":"Alphonse Karr","tags":["complaints","glass-half-full","gratitude","misattributed-abraham-lincoln","optimism","perspective","pessimism","positive-thinking","roses","thorns"],"id":25707,"author_id":"Alphonse+Karr"},{"text":"The more things change  the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change  plus c'est la meme chose.).","author":"Alphonse Karr","tags":["change","transience"],"id":69309,"author_id":"Alphonse+Karr"},{"text":"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns I am thankful that thorns have roses.","author":"Alphonse Karr","tags":["i am","roses","people "],"id":126321,"author_id":"Alphonse+Karr"},{"text":"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits  that which he has  and that which he thinks he has.","author":"Alphonse Karr","tags":["character"],"id":224954,"author_id":"Alphonse+Karr"},{"text":"The more things change, the more they are the same.","author":"Alphonse Karr","tags":["same","things","more "],"id":266198,"author_id":"Alphonse+Karr"},{"text":"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.","author":"Alphonse Karr","tags":["misfortunes","avoided "],"id":276542,"author_id":"Alphonse+Karr"},{"text":"If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.","author":"Alphonse Karr","tags":["men","think","times "],"id":314743,"author_id":"Alphonse+Karr"},{"text":"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.","author":"Alphonse Karr","tags":["forgiveness"],"id":376472,"author_id":"Alphonse+Karr"},{"text":"All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.","author":"Alphonse Karr","tags":["human-nature"],"id":404455,"author_id":"Alphonse+Karr"},{"text":"Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.","author":"Alphonse Karr","tags":["love","happiness","love is "],"id":430372,"author_id":"Alphonse+Karr"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}