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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

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The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

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For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

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The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

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When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

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Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

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With monuments as with men, position means everything.

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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

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Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

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I am not deep, but I am very wide.

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

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Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.

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Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

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The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

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Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

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The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

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