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As a rule, only the poor are generous.

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To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

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Reading brings us unknown friends

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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

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During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.

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Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.

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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

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Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.

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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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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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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

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La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

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