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According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

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Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

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To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

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Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

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Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

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A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

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