{"quotes":[{"text":"Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.","author":"Jennifer Donnelly","tags":["beauty","class-struggle","excess","french-revolution","grandeur","louis-xiv","paris","wastefulness"],"id":20568,"author_id":"Jennifer+Donnelly"},{"text":"Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find.","author":"François Magendie","tags":["chiffonier","comparison","discovery","grandiose","greatness","humbleness","louis-xiv","passion","scavenger","science"],"id":194740,"author_id":"Fran%C3%A7ois+Magendie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}