{"author":"George Sand","author_id":"George+Sand","total_quotes":49,"quotes":[{"text":"Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.","author":"George Sand","tags":["beauty","nature"],"id":133,"author_id":"George+Sand"},{"text":"One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.","author":"George Sand","tags":["happiness"],"id":22398,"author_id":"George+Sand"},{"text":"No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.","author":"George Sand","tags":["beauty","god","virtue"],"id":29250,"author_id":"George+Sand"},{"text":"The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.","author":"George Sand","tags":["change"],"id":36560,"author_id":"George+Sand"},{"text":"Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to.","author":"George Sand","tags":["faults","gender","imperfections","inequality","men","mysogyny","submission","violence","women"],"id":38894,"author_id":"George+Sand"},{"text":"Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.","author":"George Sand","tags":["happiness"],"id":46715,"author_id":"George+Sand"},{"text":"Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.","author":"George Sand","tags":["strength","man","reward "],"id":47390,"author_id":"George+Sand"},{"text":"Let us accept truth  even when it surprises us and alters our views.","author":"George Sand","tags":["side"],"id":56332,"author_id":"George+Sand"},{"text":"It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary  one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years  and that  too  with surprising strides.","author":"George Sand","tags":["side"],"id":56791,"author_id":"George+Sand"},{"text":"The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she hadn't cared to ask them in, and had told them to go on to Mers.'Why didn't you let them in?' asked Germain angrily. 'People must be very suspicious in this part of the world, if they won't open the front door to a neighbor.'Well, naturally!' replied the maid. 'In a house as rich as this, you have to keep a close watch on things. While the master's away I'm responsible for everything, and I can't just open the door to anyone at all.'That's a mean way to live,' said Germain; 'I'd rather be poor than live in fear like that. Good-bye to you, miss, and good-bye to this horrible country of yours!","author":"George Sand","tags":["country","decency","hospitality","kindness","sense","trust","wisdom"],"id":98745,"author_id":"George+Sand"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}