We got the capacity, and it seemed like the right thing to do.


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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been ...
HONORE DE BALZAC
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gon...
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God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have b...
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What is art? Nature concentrated.
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It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the dishe...
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Love is a game in which one always cheats.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over...
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds ...
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life ...
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love...
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demons...
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Finance, like time, devours its own children.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its...
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in ...
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they ...
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportio...
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. N...
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