We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.


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HONORE DE BALZAC
A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism
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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.
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To loaf is a science, to loaf is to live
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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the...
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Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness w...
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
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He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single son...
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A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the sam...
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Genius is intensity
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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent
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All happiness depends on courage and work
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Economized love is never real love
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Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
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The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the ...
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Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position
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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is n...
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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
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They must have the defects of their qualities.
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In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a wom...
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soa...
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman&...
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give...
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way...
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Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself
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They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding...
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To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give...
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness
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Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts
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Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devo...
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist...
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