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Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

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Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

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If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

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I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

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Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

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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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A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

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What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.

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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

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It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

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The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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